The Eee can get cheaper w/o going to VIA chips. I bet ASUS is taking a chunk of profit at these prices. While the build quality is OK, the parts are cheap and the screens are low- resolution and about 93 candela per meter squared (a good laptop screen is 200-350 these days).
I bet the price will drop when the NoahPad and CloudBook are out with larger hard disks and cool features.
on the actual article, it says something like "we will continue to use intel as opposed to the VIA computing platform"
but on both giz and here, they make it (now its made for here, but giz is still wrong right now) seem like asus is MOVING AWAY FROM VIA, when just about everyone, except those unlucky souls who haven't been keeping up and get swayed from articles like this one, know thats just not the case.
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Syliss @ Mar 9th 2008 7:35PM
None of the EEE PC's have VIA cpu, gah wtf is wrong with people.... I just hope the price is that or cheaper!!
Thanol @ Mar 9th 2008 7:55PM
Yeah, the editorial quality of this place is HORRIBLE. I'll bet half the editors only got their jobs because they were supposedly "good writers."
packetsniffer @ Mar 9th 2008 9:18PM
And evidently they once again silently rowback to make the mistake disappear, and you get left looking like a tool. Ah, journalism at its finest!
Cal @ Mar 9th 2008 9:29PM
It'll be because the source says:
"Shen revealed that the low-cost notebook platform will adopt Intel’s Diamondville processor in Q2 rather than VIA’s mobile computing platform."
Even though he actually said that they will continue with Intel, sort of implying that is wasn't VIA beforehand...
McLogic @ Mar 9th 2008 9:44PM
The Eee can get cheaper w/o going to VIA chips. I bet ASUS is taking a chunk of profit at these prices. While the build quality is OK, the parts are cheap and the screens are low- resolution and about 93 candela per meter squared (a good laptop screen is 200-350 these days).
I bet the price will drop when the NoahPad and CloudBook are out with larger hard disks and cool features.
Zach @ Mar 9th 2008 11:32PM
on the actual article, it says something like "we will continue to use intel as opposed to the VIA computing platform"
but on both giz and here, they make it (now its made for here, but giz is still wrong right now) seem like asus is MOVING AWAY FROM VIA, when just about everyone, except those unlucky souls who haven't been keeping up and get swayed from articles like this one, know thats just not the case.