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Acer Aspire One Now Priced at $350 ($330 With Linux)

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.

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Asus All-In-One Eee Monitor Debuts

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

Asus Eee Box Details

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

CTL Announces Ultraportable Notebook For $350

Here comes another one of those oh so popular ultraportable notebooks, this time it is made by CTL (maker of the Classmate 2) and is called the IL1 and is so far the cheapest ultraportable I’ve seen, priced at $350.

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]

Asus Releasing Eee PC 900 In May

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

Everex’s MyMiniPC is a Cheap PC With MySpace Integration

“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

Desktop Eee PC Gets Pictured

So in the past I posted about some pictures that showed up online of a Asus PC that had “Easy to Play. Easy to Lean. Easy to Work” written on the feature card but unfortunately that wasn’t the desktop Eee PC that we would soon be seeing as the official desktop Eee PC.

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!

Desktop Eee PC Photos Show Up Online

The EEE PC has become an incredibly popular little laptop and desktop versions of the Eee PC are going to be coming soon. The photos are from French-language site Matbe.com, and show a PC by Asus that doesn’t come right out and say Eee PC but it does have the words “Easy to Play. Easy to Lean. Easy to Work” written on the info card.

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 Set To Begin Selling Eee PC with 9 Inch LCD In Mid-2008

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

Shuttle’s $199 KPC Linux PC

This year really could be the year for Linux in the home. Shuttle has been showing off a $199 PC at CES. The Shuttle PC runs the KPC Linux distro and was announced on Tuesday. They didn’t actually have it on the CES show floor, you actually had to visit a private suite at the Bellagio to check it out but none the less they were showing it off.

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

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LinuxMCE Video Demo

LinuxMCE is a great application that runs on Linux it looks gorgeous. Finally there is a decent alternative to Windows Media Center that seems to be super easy to set up and and looks just as good.

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.

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