Not-an-Eee Eee PC S101 shows up at the FCC
By Nilay Patel 
posted Sep 1st 2008 11:51AM
posted Sep 1st 2008 11:51AM
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All I can say is..........................eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eeeh, nice try.
Joke has already been used, I think this might be the third time now...
What does look nice is that that battery looks like a 6 cell. And if this sports all the usual netbook hardware that's around a 5 hour+ battery life.
Looks decent but, similar to Sarah Palin, it won't WIN any beauty pageants.
Pwned.
I'd do her...
FYI, in case you were serious, In 1984 Sarah Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty contest.
She's straight out of a MILF porn movie about undersexed librarians and secretaries STARVING FOR ____K
I hate her accent. Sounds like Bobby's World's mom.
Airhead doesn't even know what a VP's job is LOL
KELLY BUNDY FOR PRESIDENT !
Really her comment isn't all that ridiculous. It makes her look bad, but really what does a Vice President do? First they're a tie breaker, but beyond that there's nothing set in stone.
Hell they can be like Dick Cheney and shoot their lawyer then never show their face in public again (or so it seems).
"MILF porn movie about undersexed librarians"
LOL. I knew I'd seen her somewhere...
preeemium.
That one is free. The rest you have to pay for.
Front view pics:
http://www.itechnews.net/2008/08/06/asus-s101-high-end-eee-pc-with-64gb-ssd/
They put the Eee name on it so it would be more likely to pass the FCC inspection? I call subliminal messaging. No, really. No company tosses a name on something, that will later get another name, on accident. ASUS is riding its own coattails.
they better send it to FCeeeCee
$899 is a fair chunk but this starts to look like a MacBook Air replacement at less than the cost of the MBA's SSD option. Yes, I know the MBA runs OS/X. I own one and like it for the 64-GB SSD, and the wonderful screen and keyboard, perfect WiFi handling, and minimalist design. My plain old MacBook's disk just died, no warning, just dead. So SSDs are a luxury I'm starting to consider essential for mobile work. But the MBA is too large and the lack of slots for e.g. SSD or more USB, not to mention a larger battery, start to annoy me. And too bloody expensive: every time I take it with me I wonder if I should not have taken more insurance. And I really prefer a decent Linux to OS/X.
asus doesn't even know how many eee models they have....
Choice is always a very bad thing.
Seriously. The 900 body with the 901's innards (Atom, mostly, and XP) would be perfect. Didn't they make that already?
Official moratorium on eee complaining is now officially in effect, oh Engadget-editors-that-I-typically-enjoy-reading. As someone sagely pointed out the other day, how many Inspiron's does Dell have? The horse is dead. D-e-e-e-a-d.
"... how many Inspiron's does Dell have?"
According to their website, 3.
A lot of Engadget reporting about the EEE's shotgun marketing but no useful commentary beyond that it's "confusing". If that were the only problem, comparisons with Dell's Inspirons would indeed be relevant.
But as a recent EEE 901 purchaser, I gotta say software (OS and apps) ties into this problem in a frightening way. The EEE 901 Linux has serious software glitches that cause updates to fail, make it difficult or impossible to upgrade important utilities like browsers and file managers, and even refuses to shut down the machine, causing a fire hazard if it's packed. See http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewpoll.php?id=39924
All of this would be relatively easy for Asus to fix, I submit, if they weren't spreading their engineers so thin by making so many slightly incompatible hardware models for the software to support. And that's worth an article.
Hmm, If it looks like an Eee...