Asus Eee PC unboxed

Asus's Eee PC is clearly making a big splash, and now that units are starting to arrive in homes everywhere the inevitable unboxing photos are starting to arrive. We've already seen the guts of this little lappie, so now it's time to see some lucky punter open their own unit and splay the battery, mini-charger, and driver disks. Nothing particularly surprising here, but if you're waiting for your own unit to arrive or for stock to replenish, we know you won't be able to get enough of these pics.

[Gadgie @ Nov 4th 2007 2:11PM]

Is it just me or are the prices that NewEgg and Best Buy offering higher than MSRP? I thought the fully loaded 8GB with 3.5 hrs was supposed to be $400, but it seems like they are offering the 4GB with 3.5hrs for this price.

[Mile @ Nov 4th 2007 2:23PM]

Just buy it and get a lawyer lined up for later. Hasn't the iphone taught you anything?

[Michael Geary @ Nov 4th 2007 6:12PM]

Do you know what the "S" in "MSRP" stands for? :-)

[Andrew @ Nov 4th 2007 2:27PM]

You sir are a douche bag

[peter @ Nov 4th 2007 2:29PM]

question: spec showed Intel® Celeron M ULV 900Mz, is this soldered or swappable ?

[D.L. @ Nov 4th 2007 3:38PM]

soldered
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4062

[rento @ Nov 4th 2007 2:29PM]

Aweet! Is it true aout the sim card slot? How would it use it.. phone or data only?

[melloncollie @ Nov 4th 2007 3:11PM]

Not at all. Where'd you hear that?

[Daniel @ Nov 4th 2007 8:27PM]

you are probably thinking SD card slot.

[chris @ Nov 4th 2007 2:47PM]

Quote Flickr:
"Taken with a Sony Ericsson K850i."

Says it all really...

Chris

[Reader @ Nov 4th 2007 2:50PM]

I hope this gets down to the original price projection soon. I reallllly want this for 200 bucks.

[Reader @ Nov 4th 2007 2:52PM]

I don't think Andrew really deserves to be minused. So the photographer sucks at taking photos, but no reason to go bash him when he spent time doing it for other peoples' benefit. He already has the laptop, he doesn't need pictures of it.

[Mr. Picklesworth @ Nov 4th 2007 2:55PM]

I hate to say it, but with the exception of keyboards, those smaller devices are holding their own in quite a few ways.
Hopefully Asus will push out a bigger-screened model some day, because that's really the only place I can fault this thing on so far :)

[labrats5 @ Nov 4th 2007 3:19PM]

Asus said that they would release a 10" version in 2008. That is the only reason why I haven't bought one of these yet.

[js @ Nov 4th 2007 3:06PM]

Can we like, have an option to not post every single Asus EEE news in iEngadget?

[Sander de Regt @ Nov 4th 2007 3:16PM]

There's an iEngadget?

[loci @ Nov 4th 2007 3:16PM]

i, for one, welcome our new overlord

[Mike @ Nov 4th 2007 3:29PM]

wow sir, can you teach me how to be that witty?

[Jeff P. @ Nov 4th 2007 10:33PM]

OK then, just what news will Engadget have? Nobody wants any Apple news. Now you don't want EEE news. I've got an idea!! Why don't you post a list of the news YOU want and then they can just post THAT!! Gads, why is it so freekin hard for people to just NOT READ something if they're not interested?

[Michael @ Nov 4th 2007 3:37PM]

@Gadgie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_pc
might clear up some stuff. Apparently the price went up because of an alleged LCD price increase.
There are four different configurations listed on the Wikipedia entry for the Eee PC.

@rento:
SD Card != SIM card

[JBrown @ Nov 4th 2007 3:58PM]

Hey, if you guys want to test drive the Eee's Cool interface, visit: http://www.honeypothack.com/eee/internet.htm

[Mile @ Nov 4th 2007 4:25PM]

I'm never clicking on that link no matter how many times it gets posted.

[Mile @ Nov 4th 2007 4:37PM]

Okay, I clicked it. Finally. Very cool!

[JBrown @ Nov 4th 2007 6:34PM]

:D 500,000 clicks can't be wrong.

[Dean @ Nov 4th 2007 4:13PM]

That thing is hideous... cool idea though.

[james @ Nov 4th 2007 5:16PM]

Thanks for the info. I've been considering this as a travel PC, as all I usually do on the road is write to my blog, check email, and search for businesses and restaurants.

Not sold yet as I want to try in person - but maybe...

james http://www.futuregringo.com

[gyffes @ Nov 5th 2007 8:27AM]

Mine, according to UPS, should arrive tomorrow.

I bought the 4gb one basically to serve until Apple releases the iMate (eMate replacement).

Having spent several hours last night playing with the gOS release, I think this Asus, with Xandros, and gOS, built on Gutsy7.10, (man, I hope the hardware isn' crap on that...) really are onto something. Apples are lovely but you pay for both the visual quality and the build quality. Getting people online and/or wordprocessing/emailing with software that "just works" without gouging them is an excellent goal.

Now, if we could just drop the cost of broadband...

[hn333 @ Nov 4th 2007 6:00PM]

This thing is really cheap and ugly. Fujitsu makes way better sub notebook.

[Fred @ Nov 5th 2007 3:34PM]

Does Fujitsu make a model that is 2 lbs, has an SSD disk, and costs just $400?

Didn't think so.

[Devron @ Nov 4th 2007 6:27PM]

I'm loving it.... cheap, flexible... something you can keep with you on the go and not worry about it getting stolen. Quick boot up times (saw on YouTube).... and an SD slot that support SDHC.

My only question is, "Has anyone tried to put Ubuntu on this yet?"

[luke @ Nov 4th 2007 7:58PM]

Apparently Ubuntu works:
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006278o-2000331777b,00.htm

[Ayle @ Nov 4th 2007 8:04PM]

get wine i suppose but since there don't seem to be any package manager and that distribution is not based on debian I have no idea on how to do that....

[tnkgrl @ Nov 4th 2007 8:06PM]

1) These are my pictures, from my Flickr account, for my blog post:

http://tnkgrl.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/unboxing-the-asus-701-eee/

2) I was playing around with my new Sony Ericsson K850i 5 megapixel cameraphone, purposely using the macro and not using the flash.

3) I'm female, so please stop using "he".

[Steve Jobs @ Nov 4th 2007 8:09PM]

Yeah, but can it play Doom?

[s1pacrat @ Nov 5th 2007 12:39AM]

If that thing could play doom out of the box I would probably have it already...

I'm sure there would be a way to put doom on it though :D

[jwtrooper @ Nov 5th 2007 3:36AM]

Wow, my old Metrobook SLT was way ahead of it's time...

Would love to play around with one of these Eee's if they didn't raise the price.

[Charlotte @ Nov 5th 2007 6:09AM]

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Asus is onto a winner here! I've shown my new baby to everyone I meet, and not a single person has been able to find a negative word to say.

My only problem is that the backspace key is hard to reach, and as I'm still getting used to the size of the keyboard, backspace is something that I use relatively regularly.

[superfresh @ Nov 5th 2007 8:55AM]

Can't wait to get one of these... but two questions. Can anyone answer:

1. When do the other colors on the front of the box come out?
2. When in 2008 will the 10" appear?

[superfresh @ Nov 5th 2007 9:04AM]

Also...When, or how, do I get XP on this thing? Not that I want it. Just curious.

[samdha @ Nov 5th 2007 3:59PM]

1. Right now they only have white. Probably in April.
2. They are saying April
3. www.eeeuser.com the forums will answer that- and anything else

[Frode @ Dec 1st 2007 4:53PM]

If you want to instal cp on it. Simply use a usb cd/dvd-rom and boot up the pc with the usb cd/dvd drive. Then start the setup. NOTE: afther instal of xp you will have about 2gb left on your SSD disk drive. (If you have the ver with 4gb) If you run windows update and instal all updates for windows and programs you will have about 1.2-1.5gb left. I recomend 512mb ram or more if you instal win xp. Want to know more just ask.

[Mek @ Dec 2nd 2007 8:28AM]

can i play warcraft 3 , counter-strike or guitar pro or use standard windows application on that eee pc of asus, co'z i'm thinking of having one of those 8gb series of them

[Frode @ Dec 2nd 2007 1:16PM]

You can play some games. But note that 3DFX games (open glide) Not all will work. The grafic card on the Eee computer is not the best. But Red alert 2, Doom2, Dune 2, Carmageddon 2 works fine. Allmovst every programs and games can be installed to a SD/SDHC chip. Then play/start them. But allso note that you can upgrate the SSD 4gb to a 8gb or 16GB disk on this Eee 701 mini pc. High programs or games that request allot of 3DFX/open glide will problety not work normaly. Some will work. Some will not. But movst programs works fine. My model is: Asus Eee model 701 with: 1gb ram, 900mhz 8gb hd.

[Mek @ Dec 3rd 2007 2:43AM]

would you please try if dota-frozen throne runs smoothly on that machine,, please ..?? and if it does, how its display look like??

[Frode @ Dec 3rd 2007 1:34PM]

I will test dota-frozen throne as soon I get my Eee back. My best friend have it now. He will be back in 9 days Then I'll test it no problemo :) Did you allso Know you can instal a mini ver of windows xp that takes only 667mb of the disk space. But I dont recomend it. I did use professional. If there is more just ask Mek ;) Allso if you need tips to upgrate the Eee 701 just ask.

[Mek @ Dec 4th 2007 8:51AM]

that's all for now,thanks by the way.. my only purpose for a laptop is for ggclient and guitarpro only so i should not buy an expensive one.

[Frode @ Jan 13th 2008 12:22PM]

I see. Then the eee 701 is fine for you. When the eee with 10" comes out I will by that one and sell the 7". The eee 701 is ok for me but I want the model with larger screen (10") It will some out januar/feb 2008. Btw I have shrinked xp to match all asus eee pc :) Takes only 850mb of disk space afther install. For more info just ask :)

[Mek @ Jan 16th 2008 7:21AM]

when the 10" will come?
when the 10" will come?
when the 10" will come?
when the 10" will come?

i can't wait..
if it's in the mid of the year..
i'll buy the 7" and sell it when the 10" comes

[Frode @ Jan 13th 2008 12:24PM]

I ment the xp professional take 650mb afther install. You can use XP normaly but some one who use all fungsions in xp and then I mean all! Shud not instal mini xp. More info just ask :)