This is just plain ridiculous, where is the cheap laptop we were promised with great battery? Seriously i would've bought an EEE 900 if they hadn't shafted us Brits. Im waiting for the wind and am hoping for a reasonable price, if i get 4 hours which is top whack of what they promised, i will be happy.
One has to take a step back and look at what Asus appear to be doing with their eeepc brand line.
They will soon have a 7 inch sub range, a 9 inch sub range and a 10 inch subrange. The 7 inchars will become the low priced value leaders and the others will fill in all the way up towards Asus's other fuller sized laptops. Thus don't look at the 9/10 inch models as low priced units. That's not the intention. That role will ONLY be filled by the smaller screen line.
^ which is complete lunacy. newer revisions of hardware is supposed to make it cheaper, faster and more innovative - not more expensive, slower (atom - what a disappointment) and stagnant in terms of technology.
the price jumped two-fold and all it did was add a bigger screen and a _cheaper_ CPU. any fool can see that. also note that MSI can do what the $800 EEEPC can do at a lower cost. it's sheer arrogance.
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This is just plain ridiculous, where is the cheap laptop we were promised with great battery? Seriously i would've bought an EEE 900 if they hadn't shafted us Brits. Im waiting for the wind and am hoping for a reasonable price, if i get 4 hours which is top whack of what they promised, i will be happy.
One has to take a step back and look at what Asus appear to be doing with their eeepc brand line.
They will soon have a 7 inch sub range, a 9 inch sub range and a 10 inch subrange.
The 7 inchars will become the low priced value leaders and the others will fill in all the way up towards Asus's other fuller sized laptops. Thus don't look at the 9/10 inch models as low priced units. That's not the intention. That role will ONLY be filled by the smaller screen line.
^ which is complete lunacy. newer revisions of hardware is supposed to make it cheaper, faster and more innovative - not more expensive, slower (atom - what a disappointment) and stagnant in terms of technology.
the price jumped two-fold and all it did was add a bigger screen and a _cheaper_ CPU. any fool can see that. also note that MSI can do what the $800 EEEPC can do at a lower cost. it's sheer arrogance.
Agreed, ASUS keeps outspec'ing instead of delivering on their original promise.