The Acer Aspire One that debuted for about $500 is now being sold on BestBuy.com for $350 with Windows XP or $330 if you want it with Linux instead.

The Aspire One has a 8.9″ 1024×600 display, 802.11b/g, 3 USB ports, and an Intel Atom processor. With this price drop I think netbooks are actually hitting a price point that people will actually be willing to pay for these mini notebooks.

I personally believe that the magic price point for these netbooks will be around $300, at that price it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibilities for them to be purchased for children. But, I guess these companies either can’t get the manufacturing costs down low enough or want to make a little bit more profit, either way they will learn eventually.

Best Buy Product Page

A commenter suggested that he try out the Qt interface instead of the GTK interface, so he did.

DaringFireball

Asus has finally unveiled their all-in-one addition to the Eee lineup. The new computer is named the Eee Monitor (terrible name by the way) it should come in sizes from 19 to 21 inches, have a built in TV tuner, and be priced around $500.

The PC should be shipping in September alongside Asus’s 42″ Eee TV.

I think that Asus may be going a little too far with that Eee TV, but I do think the Eee Monitor is a great idea. At $500 who wouldn’t get this all-in-one, the only problem I think the majority of the market would be frustrated by is the fact that it runs Linux (the vast majority of the public just isn’t ready for it yet), but of course, this is just me assuming that it won’t run Windows as well.

PC World

The Asus Desktop Eee PC has been a long time coming (a few months at least!) and Asus has finally given some actual info on the computer.

The name of it is now the Asus Eee Box, the computer will be available worldwide in July with both Linux and Windows XP versions. The cheapest model will be priced at $330 and have a 80GB hard drive (250GB max) 802.11n Wifi, 4 USB ports, and a card reader.

There is no word yet on what processor the Eee Box will have but one would assume it will be packing an Atom CPU just like it’s notebook brother.

PCWorld

Via C7-M 1GHz processor
1GB RAM
7″ LED-backlit LCD (800×480)
Integrated graphics
VGA output for second monitor
4GB solid state drive
2x USB ports
802.11b/g Wifi
1x RJ-45 10/100 Ethernet
56K Modem
SD/MMC Memory Card Reader
Windows XP or Linux
Integrated 640×480 webcam

Dimensions & Power
9.6″ x 6.8″ x 1.7″
2.6lbs
4-cell Li-Ion Battery
About 4.5 hours battery life

CTL [viaGizmodo]

According to DigiTimes Asus is pushing their upcoming Eee PC from June to May to help fight off some of the competition coming from the likes of Acer, HP and everyone else.

Remember that this isn’t set in stone yet but it would make sense that Asus would want to get their second generation product out as soon as possible so that everyone else would be on their first generation of this style notebook.

I’ve heard many people talking about how they aren’t really sure that this part of the notebook market would really pan out as all of us geeks are expecting it to. I hope that they are wrong, especially since, in my opinion at least, most people don’t need any more power than they would find in an Asus Eee PC and it would be much smarter for the average user to purchase a $400 Asus Eee PC and spend $800 on a desktop from someone like Dell than to spend $1200 on just a laptop. In this situation the $800 desktop will have about the same amount of horse power as the $1200 notebook but you would also be able to purchase a $400 Eee PC.

DigiTimes

“Its what happens when you combine an award winning design with the power of Open Source.” Well, maybe not the hardware design, which is pretty horrible looking, but, this thing is pretty awesome.

The Everex MyMiniPC is $499.99, and has..

• 1.86GHz Pentium T2130
• 512MB RAM
• OS is gOS “Space”
• 120GB hard drive
• DVD+/-RW drive
• Firewire
• Four USB 2.0 ports
• DVI and S-Video
• Gigibit Eathernet
• Media Reader

This little PC is said to be “exclusively created for the +100,000,000 MySpace users of the world.” So there is clearly a lot of integration with MySpace and, I would guess, other Web 2.0 sites.

This actually looks like a great OS interface and would probably be a great computer for the majority of teenagers in the world today… or at least the ones that spend all of their time on MySpace.

Everex

The desktop Eee PC will first ship in black or white with the possibility of more colors down the line.

Asus has said in the past that the desktop Eee PC would ship with an Intel Celeron processor and soon afterwards transition to the Atom processor. Asus also said that they would be pushing for a price somewhere between $200 and $300, with the goal being to get the cost down to $200 over time.

First thing I want to say about these pictures is: Nintendo Wii.
The second thing I want to say is: I WANT ONE!

The desktop was shown off at CeBIT and was said to be running “Eee PC Linux OS.” Asus has said that when the desktop Eee PC will debut in April or May for $200-300.

Here’s the pics:

Register Hardware

Asus will be showing off the “New Generation” of Asus Eee PCs at Cebit 2008 and it includes an Eee PC with a 9″ LCD screen, 2″ (diagonal) larger than the Asus Eee PCs that are currently being sold.

The impact on the battery this new, larger LCD panel will have is said to be negligible, the Eee PC is going to have 2.5 to 3 hours of battery life.

The 9″ Eee PC is set to begin hitting store shelves in the middle of 2008 with a €399 price tag, which comes with a 12GB flash drive. There will also be a 8GB version, no US pricing has been found at this time.

Engadget Gallery

The computer will have a Intel Celeron processor, a 945GC chipset, 512MB of RAM and the option of either a 60GB or 80GB hard drive.

The computer doesn’t have an optical drive or any PCIe slots but its a great looking box that will do what most home users will need it to do.

The new PC will come in either red, blue, white, or black each with a different color icon stamped on the front.

Cnet

If your curious about LinuxMCE check out this video:

If you want to see more or try it out yourself head on over to linuxmce.com.

There are 5 colors to choose from:

Black
White
Pink
Blue
Green

The $299 version comes with 512MB of memory and a 2GB solid state hard disk. This version is also missing the webcam but does still come with the MMC/SD (SDHC) card slot.

There is also an addition of a $399 version which comes with 1GB of memory and an 8GB solid state disk. (I personally would spring for the $299 Black version if I was looking to purchase a smaller notebook).

Recently Softpedia posted an installation guide for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) on the Playstation 3. So if you want to maybe play some old school games with emulators or you want to do some other type of cool guy linux stuff, well… you can.

The install process isn’t really that long and the great news is that you can keep the standard PS3 OS installed so you can still do all the great things that the PS3 can do.

One more thing I’d like to mention about it, Ubuntu CAN read the Blu-ray disks however you cannot play Blu-ray movies through Ubuntu (darn DRM).

Ubuntu 7.04 on PS3 [Softpedia]

Wal-Mart has begun selling a $199 PC powered by a Via C7-D Processor and running Linux. The PC is manufactured by Everex and comes with 512MB of DDR2 memory and an 80GB hard drive. The Linux distro running on the computer is called gOS which is based on Ubuntu 7.10.

You can purchase the computer for yourself here.

Since the Operating System (OS) is Open Source you can actually download gOS and put it on a computer of your choice. You can get the ISO for the OS here from the official site or you can download it here at LinuxTracker.org. The ISO is 728MB so it won’t fit on a CD-R but will fit on a DVD-R with plenty of room to spare. gOS comes as a LiveCD so you will be able to play around with gOS before you install it.

(by the way, the g doesn’t stand for Google it stands for Green)

I think that this is a pretty cool idea, I don’t really think that it will sell that well because people who don’t know much about computers will probably be upset if they come home and find something they aren’t accustomed to when they boot up their brand new computer for the first time. But, this is a really neat low-cost computer that I don’t think people should rule out just because of the OS installed.