http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/ Engadget Comments for ASUS prepping "high-end" Eee PC S-series for September http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Suit 2: Quite.
Suit 1: How do we capitalize on this?
Suit 2: Well, we could reduce the price slightly and increase volumes.
Suit 1: How old fashioned ... I'm going to have to say no. Better idea: Let's introduce thousands of barely differentiated models of the same thing.
Suit 2: That's why you're the boss.]]>Jul 31st 2008 2:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Suit 2: DAMN! no wonder i didnt make the cut!]]>Jul 31st 2008 2:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 2:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
Good grief they need to change their slogan. I love Asus but man that is cheesy.]]>Jul 31st 2008 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/hopefully I would find one on Eee Bay.]]>Jul 31st 2008 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 2:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 2:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 2:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
hmmm.... :P]]>Jul 31st 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
Before Asus the alternative 9 inch and 10 inch laptops (Sony) where and still are 2x - 3x more expensive.]]>Jul 31st 2008 3:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
keep it in perspective ppl]]>Jul 31st 2008 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
Battery drained when power off
Sucking unresponsive keyboards
Pointless BIOS updates
Ancient linux packages
Buggy touchpad & wifi drivers
Crappy software upgrade dialog
Really open up the sources

Only if those 23 models would fix them!]]>Jul 31st 2008 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/The only thing it needs is 3G and you can surf 7.2Mbit where ever, whenever you want.

I just hope there is an option not to have the 120GB HDD but to have an addidional 16GB of SDD.
]]>Jul 31st 2008 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
Look, it's like this: Asus built up hype last year first by rumors that its Eee would compete with the OLPC. It failed to meet its original price projections (typical of all such projects) but wowed reviewers for releasing a revolutionary product--an affordable, functional, innovative, easy-to-use miniature non-Windows laptop.

Since then, Asus developed the Eee brand along the "something for everyone" philosophy. It apparently has such remarkable flexibility that it is able to create products to suit the barriage of demanding, and often conflicting feature requests of its vocal following. And it has been only condemned at every step of the way.

The biggest challengers to Asus dominance of the netbook markets have wound up being as big of blowhards when it comes to price as Asus itself was in 2007. The "race to the bottom" was all hot air. Perhaps Dell can undercut the value with a cheaper, comparable system--they have a knack for that.

But until then, why hate on Asus? Well, aside from their moving further and further away from offering Linux options...

They really *aren't* price gouging, at least not any more than their competitors.]]>Jul 31st 2008 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
So in all fairness. It is not strange that the final pricetag of the 7inch was not $200 but $300.]]>Jul 31st 2008 3:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
please tell me you are not a modder, every sperm is sacred!]]>Jul 31st 2008 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
Anyways, putting in a high-end graphics card would reduce the battery life to about 30 minutes and give you 3rd degree burns. Your sperm deserve better than that.]]>Jul 31st 2008 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
no I'm not a mini-laptop modder... but how easy is it to find high-end hardware that fits in a Eee? ]]>Jul 31st 2008 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/]]>Jul 31st 2008 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 4:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
Only reason Intel does this is to stop AMD, OLPC, ARM based Laptops from really seriously bring cheap laptops.

Cheap laptops have no profit margins to make for any of HP, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu, Asus, Acer, Everex, MSI, Gigabyte or any of the other used-to-be Intel bloatware partners.]]>Jul 31st 2008 5:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
So basically I am a psychic then. :-)

Or they are releasing so many models that I could have guessed at anything and been right.

Still kind of cool.
]]>Jul 31st 2008 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
sorry]]>Jul 31st 2008 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
but yeah you may be right that they only made the atom because they felt the competition was trying there]]>Jul 31st 2008 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Easy To Use
Easy To Play
Hard To Choose!?]]>Jul 31st 2008 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
Asus have SO diluted the brand and the idea behind the name that people are now yawning whenever they hear Asus announce something.

Do something different Asus like you did with the Eee. Bring us a £500 with a £1000 spec and people would notice.]]>Jul 31st 2008 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
RIGHT:
Despite the ever increasing price, the Eee PC is still cheaper than a full size laptop, and defintitely cheaper than the pricey sub-laptops that came before it. It is however, not as powerful as the more expensive ones.

WRONG:
That oh-so-contentious accusation of brand dilution. Some on here defend Asus for offering what people want in a variety of flavours, others think they're confusing the average Joe with too many model numbers. I'm inclined to side with the latter, especially given the upcoming premium range which would completely wreck the idea of the Eee brand being synonymous with low cost computing.

What Asus really need to do is put as much effort into marketing these premium end Eee PCs under a different moniker so as not to blur the lines between the low and the high end, given the already confusing choices available to the consumer.]]>Jul 31st 2008 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
And let's be honest here: most people buying these netbooks are at least somewhat tech-savvy. For those who aren't, the big box stores usually only have 1-3 models of Eee to choose.

Either way, having many options shouldn't be a reason for people browsing a TECH blog to whine. I'm glad that there are more and more people who see this and are mocking the people that whine about brand dilution look like fools.]]>Jul 31st 2008 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/
I doubt ASUS is proclaiming their new configurations as the next best thing! It is Engadget's stupid writers who wet their pantyliners over nothing.

If Engadget has a blog post for every Dell configuration..... ]]>Jul 31st 2008 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/Jul 31st 2008 1:57PM