Not-an-Eee Eee PC S101 shows up at the FCC

Although ASUS's "premium" N10 netbook managed to ditch the Eee branding, it looks like the S101 is having a harder time breaking loose from the fam -- the 10.2-inch netbook just showed up in the FCC database sporting the Eee PC name, even though ASUS told us it won't be an Eee when it goes on sale. We'll see how it's labeled when Uncle Sam gets done with it -- we've got a feeling ASUS is going to take its already-confusing Eee marketing to a whole new level with this one.

[rony @ Sep 1st 2008 11:56AM]

All I can say is..........................eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Marvin Quach @ Sep 1st 2008 5:32PM]

Eeeh, nice try.


Joke has already been used, I think this might be the third time now...

[Juxtah @ Sep 1st 2008 11:59AM]

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.

[Flashpoint @ Sep 1st 2008 12:04PM]

Looks decent but, similar to Sarah Palin, it won't WIN any beauty pageants.

[Striker @ Sep 1st 2008 12:20PM]

Pwned.

[iEye @ Sep 1st 2008 1:27PM]

I'd do her...

[JTM @ Sep 1st 2008 3:03PM]

FYI, in case you were serious, In 1984 Sarah Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty contest.

[Flashpoint @ Sep 1st 2008 3:10PM]

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 !

[Reader @ Sep 1st 2008 4:04PM]

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).

[LondonConsultant @ Sep 1st 2008 4:30PM]

"MILF porn movie about undersexed librarians"

LOL. I knew I'd seen her somewhere...

[pete @ Sep 1st 2008 12:18PM]

preeemium.

That one is free. The rest you have to pay for.

[Pumping_Iron @ Sep 1st 2008 12:21PM]

Front view pics:

http://www.itechnews.net/2008/08/06/asus-s101-high-end-eee-pc-with-64gb-ssd/

[BigD145 @ Sep 1st 2008 1:35PM]

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.

[chickenator @ Sep 1st 2008 2:30PM]

they better send it to FCeeeCee

[ph @ Sep 1st 2008 2:17PM]

$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.

[scott @ Sep 1st 2008 2:19PM]

asus doesn't even know how many eee models they have....

[avester @ Sep 1st 2008 2:50PM]

Choice is always a very bad thing.

[Jack @ Sep 1st 2008 4:35PM]

Seriously. The 900 body with the 901's innards (Atom, mostly, and XP) would be perfect. Didn't they make that already?

[OnlyShawn @ Sep 1st 2008 3:00PM]

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.

[Kirk @ Sep 1st 2008 5:21PM]

"... how many Inspiron's does Dell have?"

According to their website, 3.

[Lifehacker @ Sep 1st 2008 5:14PM]

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.

[rickhamilton620 @ Sep 1st 2008 10:46PM]

Hmm, If it looks like an Eee...