Eee PC 1000H gets a $100 price drop
By Nilay Patel 
posted July 19th 2008 5:04PM
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Now let's complain about the price. What if they made it cheaper? =D
I'm pissed. I want to buy an EEEpc but it seems like almost every month Asus comes out with a new model. I just want a small linux travel laptop. Hmm Im just going to buy the old 8G as a traveler. I dont need any of the new fancy stuff with this 10" display and a hard drive and a atom processor and windows! all unnecessary crap!
oops! I mean 4G. :O
I want this one but with Linux (not the one that has a 40g hard drive). Why does the Linux version has less HD space and is more expensive?
@Brian:
So get the one that suits you best? I thought that was the whole point of this having-more-than-one-version thing.
14" is perfect IMO
small enough to carry around, set on your lap.
big enough to easily type and work on.
Dude. If you had just left out the words "type" and "and," you would have set that up for a perfect "That's what she said" remark.
That's what she said.
I gave up with the EEE names after the 901.
why such shitty battery life. my hp with xp will get that same time with a 15 inch screen and descrite graphics
Cool. Another Apple topic. You idiots don't even need help from Engadget anymore, do you?
does this have a "spinny" hard drive
That is still a ripoff considering other 550$ computers are full-blown machines with an optical drive, real hard drive, and real power... whatever happened to the concept of the original eeepc? CHEAP, and small? Anything over 300$ is too much to me. The original eeepc was supposed to be released for 199$... whatever happened to trying to keep that price point?
The Asus EeePC line seems overpriced, and has poor build quality and cheap looking design.
MSI own the market now, the Wind is the best value, quality construction and unlike most other makes has built-in Bluetooth. I have an Advert 4211 (MSI Wind 10" rebadge) and can't fault it.
I note that this model does have Bluetooth, however it seems to have less venting than the MSI Wind and at 1.45Kg is heavier than the 1.3Kg Wind, however that maybe due to the 6 cell battery.
These things are light in the first place so who cares if it's a tiny bit heavier than the Wind? Anyways, one of the biggest complaints for the netbooks is their 3-cell (crappy) battery life, so I'd say the Eee 1000 is a pretty good choice for them.
The MSI wind is MIA. Good luck trying to order one.
The 1000h was too much before the price drop but $550 is just right for what it has to offer.
and no I don't want a 14" laptop for "just a few dollars more"
Too damn big.
My MacBook Pro has a Delete key. What Mac keyboard doesn't have a Delete key?
we all have delete keys... they really mean to ask why we don't have a key labelled backspace...
because delete does that function too... but just like PC from the Apple commercial, they're not really good at thinking outside the box they're in. =)
wait fozzy, let me get this straight. You're accusing people of not thinking outside of the box by quoting a commericial?
I have to try this again since its just too easy.
Look at me! I'm thinking outside the box by purchasing a product mass produced in China by a multinational, hundred million dollar publicly traded corporation!
All this thinking outside of the box is really good for my synergizing in a totally different paradigm!
@ metal
Look who's talking, or rather don't. Look at your computer, because this is valuable 'up time,' as MS fans call it (time before the computer crashes). Have fun!
My Mac crashes approximately 1 time for every apocalypse (so not quite yet).
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@who
Pinky up?
I'd post a more relevant comment, but I'd rather sit here feeling quietly superior than have commercials and crappy reasons for buying a mac thrown at me.
@ who.
I've seen one blue screen in the past 5 years. If you didnt spend all your time looking at porn and downloading warez about how hot wifey is maybe you wouldnt have this problem.
But then again maybe I just take better care of my hardware instead of expecting it to run perfectly after abusing it everyday.
@ metal
Either your hardware is broken or you are, because apparently you can't quite type a question mark at the end of my name. So which is messed up, you, or your second-rate craptop?
so you've finally reached the bottom of the barrel of comebacks and you have to attack my ability to type question marks? Thats just pathetic. Why dont you go home and cry to your mommy about how the bad man on the internet hurt your feelings. And while you're at it maybe you can have her teach you a little something on basic arguing skills.
Wow. So you've already boiled down to not giving a damn about grammar and attacking me through my family. Nice.
@ metal
I didn't quote a commercial... I referenced a character used to illustrate a dichotomy. You proved my point perfectly by acting just like that character.
And about the 1 blue screen of death... you know you're a liar and fool if you think we believe that line you're feeding us.
finally... mass-produced in china... look around you, most of the things in your life probably have the word 'china' on it - for better or worse - it doesn't imply crap, it just means you're a sucker if you think that logic applies exclusively to Apple owners (refer back to the first paragraph if you're confused about the point).
now to enlighten PC owners, I'll put it this way...
PC is the just okay looking chick everyone's had a night with and
Apple is the gorgeous classy gal everyone hopes to get a date with but few rarely get the nod.
Ultimately, someone gets to take her home... and for those of us that do, we're smart enough to know a good thing when we see it.
So, no, we don't need the commercials, but we love them anyway because it appeals to our sense of humor. You can't blame a PC for not having a sense of humor... unless the blue screen of death is funny to you.
So yeah Harry Wagstaff, sometimes we come off as snobby... but when you've gotten quite accustomed to class, it's hard to switch back to tired and worn out PC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3CNIO4ZLYE
Leopard custom installer - runs really nicely on the wind - this unit is nearly identicle - should be fine
I like a large keyboard, big screen, under 3 punds and flash memory.
I'm thinking of the eee pc 1000. What else do you suggest buying that these attributes?
Only expandable screens and keyboards will satisfy the engadget crowd. Small when you want it small and bigger when you need it to be. Few years down the road though.
Weird, so on NewEgg at least, this 1000H model is $550 but the 901 is $600!
They'd better drop the price on that as well.
you sir, are a tool.
you are the definition of an apple fanboy. apple hasn't even released anything or said they'd release anything in competition. as of now the only thing they have that remotely resembles anything in this "netbook" category is the macbook air, and that thing is around $2,000 and has a 13" screen...3inches too big and $1,500 (or more) too expensive.
see people..this is why i and many other people refuse to buy apple products, apple seems to have a freaking cult following behind them.
oops that was supposed to be in response to "Ocean 6 (im not 'clak')"...stupid commenting system
Apple bashers are just as irritating as Apple fanbois. The MBA should be compared to other overpriced executive toys like various Sony and Panasonic laptops.
However, if the MBA is going to be brought up in a thread about the 1000H, then be fair about it. The MBA is lighter, has a significantly larger screen, higher resolution, faster CPU, more memory, metal case, etc. It's $1699 (edu pricing, which anyone can get) with an iPod Touch. Ebay the iPod and you're out ~$1460 for the MBA after rebate.
I still wouldn't buy one myself (1 USB port... no thanks), but I also wouldn't characterize it as $1500 too expensive. If the MBA was $500 cheaper, it'd be a decent deal.
As far as the 1000H goes, $550 isn't actually that bad, but I just can't get excited about a laptop that weighs more than 3 pounds and has only a 10" sub-XGA screen. I had a Sony SRX99 back in 2002 that had a 10.4" XGA screen and weighed 2.7 pounds. So even the 2.6 pounds 6-cell MSI Wind isn't all that special... give it a 1280x768 10" screen for
Seriously, I've noticed that everyone who tries to respond to clak gets his comment moved somewhere else, not below Clak's where it belongs.
Does Clak have some sort of bubble shield?
The EEE 1000H is looking pretty good. Not sure if the price is low enough, but regardless, I'm buying some type of Netbook - among the ocean of them out there - because nothing could beat having such a small, light laptop like this to take with you everywhere you go - especially for college or for use at a bookstore, etc.
I'm pleased to see so many manufacturers focusing some of their energies on making these.
The additional options I wish this 1000H offered:
- Slightly sharper screen resolution (1280x768 maybe)
- Fingerprint reader
- Swiveling, foldable touchscreen
- WWAN (GSM-based and not locked to just one carrier)
- SiRFstar III / Prima or MTK GPS chipset (along with A-GPS support)
- Larger capacity HDD (120-160GB)
- Stereo Mics
That all would bump up the price, but that's what I'd like to see, and a little system with all that would lack for nothing.
Dell is going to redefine quality with their Lattitude E series netbooks in August ... i'm waiting until them.
My opinion: Go back to the 2G/4G version, but replace the SSD with a 20 or 40GB HDD and make it an Atom.
I'd buy one of them (of course, I do realize if I got what I wanted, we'd see even more Eee models). I don't see the need for all these Eee's when they could just offer different options on the original few models and be done with it (and yes, technically these could be options, I know that).
what is wrong with seeing more EEE models?
isn't more option a good thing?
and if you really think about it, you can see these different models simply as options.
its really not that confusing, 700, 900, 901, 1000...(904/905)
the only thing differs from them are the harddrive/screen size....
if you look all the reviews/complaints from engadget..
u'd see a lot of people say "they should just make it blahblhabl, they should just make it this/that..."
and they all say different things................................
different people have different needs, and a different idea of what their ideal netbook is..
So me not having that ? really affected your ability to comprehend my argument? I didnt get that feeling from the way you responded to my comment without missing a beat. Also, question marks are not grammar, they are punctuation.
And I fail to see how calling you a cry baby is an attack on your mom. Of course, I'm sure in your infinite wisdom it should have been strikingly obvious how this was an attack on your family.
I ordered one from excaliberpc.com on last thursday for $650. I received it today and happened to catch this so I call them up and they happily credited me back that benny.
Price back up to $649 as of 8/1 at 12am