Just when we think things can't get any worse for the Eee's bedraggled reputation as a brand, along comes ASUS with a subtle deviation to give us some much needed hope. The "fashion-friendly"
S101 ($699 to $799), which will ship in brown (seriously?), champagne and graphite hues, and feature a 10.2-inch WSVGA LED-backlit display, an SSD up to 64GB in size, 4-in-1 flash card reader, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, a VGA output, three USB 2.0 ports, 0.3-megapixel webcam and a multi-touch trackpad. In related news, we've got the remarkably heinous
904HA (shown after the break), which inexplicably comes in puke green and lollipop red (or black, phew), and includes a 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD, 6-cell battery and a $399.99 price tag. You're stoked, aren't you?
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posted Oct 3rd 2008 1:06PM
wow, that thing is slim... feather light... should fit in an office envelope at a fraction of the cost.
FYI: It's not feather light
He's talking about the feather.
andy: you could cut your cake and eat it too!
Which weighs more: a pound of S101 or a pound of feathers?
@BigD145
I would say they weigh the same. But the real answer is no one cares.
The E904HA actually is pretty appealing (well, in black, I presume - I don't see any pictures of the black version. The red and green are pretty terrible.) The price seems right (and that's the main thing), especially with a 6-cell battery. My question, and this is important to me: can you install Mac OS X on it via whatever means? More correctly, can you set it up for dual boot with both Mac OS X and Windows XP? Does the fact that the processor is an Atom present any issues for Mac OS X (or installing it)? I'd run Windows in Fusion, but the 1 GB RAM would seem to limit that. Can you upgrade to 2 GB or more?
I'm going to assume that "SteveJ" doesn't stand for "Steve Jobs"...
Let me try to answer your question though
It is possible to load versions of osx onto eee's but since you don't seem capable enough to google how yourself, I doubt you have enough tech savvy to pull it off.
If there is software you have to have on osx and you really want it in a slim case, I'd suggest you just pay the Apple tax and save yourself a lot of stress.
Otherwise, use xp and or try out Xandros, you might find it rather refreshing.
Its all about the OSX :(
Its all about the OSX :(
No dual core? ='[
I think he was referring to the dual core atom processor.
The N270 is a single core processor.
That'll be on the version eeeeee s101 :P
nope, i already got a macbook, thnx anyways
Nope, I like my $2500, thnx anyways.
mmmm lollipop... not so much puke...
But will it slice?
Thank you, I'll be here all day.
Yuk yuk yuk yuk!!!
It looks surprisingly thin, but it could be a trick of the angle that they are using. I am amazed that with a photo like this, no one is talking about how thin it is. I will be curious to see more pics of this as they come.
- Kiteless
Really?
That's disappointing news.
1.8 cm according to the release
The puke green includes chunks too.
That's detail for ya.
Or... air bubbles in the protective film.
no, it's pretty patterns http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/10/03/eeepc.904ha.unveiled/
I actually quite like the "puke" colour as the editor so eloquently put it.
Almost all Eee articles contain a variation of "Just when we think things can't get any worse for the Eee's bedraggled reputation as a brand"..its getting old, try writing something fresh. We dont need the "attitude".
That's the only reason I stop at Engadget... for the attitude. Sheesh!
I like the attitude factor, but the eee hate that has been going around here is even worse than the hate that went around for the Zune when it first came out. It's true that there are too many models, but the new models are filling some nice gaps in their line, its actually kinda nice to be able to get a machine exactly how you want it. These changes are nice, they just need to find a better way to present them. Finally, that green color really isn't that bad at all, I';ve seen some other Eees with it at a different angle, and it looks fine. And the brown looks pretty high-end, just what Asus was aiming for.
Thank god someone else feels the same way. It's bad enough that a tech community like Engadget's is so childish over a product's naming system, but the Engadget editors themselves inserting hyperbole about it into everyone of their posts about the Eee is just plain annoying.
Thanks Adderz
I'm getting sick of it too!
Seriously, I just counted over 25 different models of laptops on Dell's site today! Yes, a little more organized, but still just list all the model numbers side by side and everyone would be just as confused.
The joke is an antique now so move on.
Well, at least this time they're reporting on facts, and not passing unconfirmed, possibly fan-made mockups as news.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/eee-marketing-getting-adorably-bitchy/
I find it interesting that out of all the people who responded, not a single one stopped to question the legitimacy of the supposed "advertisement." One that lacked any sort of Asus or EEE branding.
Skazer: They wouldn't do it if every post about the EEE wasn't announcing a new model. Zing!
You know what? I'm beginning to sense that the Engagdet editors think the Eee brand is watered down. You know what else? I'm sick of hearing them go on and on and on about it. We get it already. Move on.
i like skinny netbookss, but i'll never turn down a fatty.
That's what she said
I'm willing to trade thinness for a high capacity HDD.
Fattys need love too...
What'chu talkin' 'bout?
Brown is actually pretty stylish nowadays. My GF is wanting the Brown G1 when it comes out o_O
looks nice, but with no Dual Core.. maybe hard to do stuff.. might as well get a Air :)
If you have an extra thousand dollars in loose change down the back of the sofa you might as well...
If you're willing to pay $2500 for Air, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to show you..
Forget the bridge.
I've got some oceanfront property in Idaho for sale.
I have some Lehman Brothers stock you might be interested in.
I like the looks ofthe S101, but for that price, the SSD had better be quite fast and I was hoping for a higher resolution screen instead of the numbing 1024x600 in just about all other netbooks. : (
HP's 2133 Mini-Note has 1280x768 and runs around the same price as the S101 but with the much inferior Via C7 processor.
So its basically a slimmer eee 1000 with presumably a decent speed SSD?
No expresscard slot, no tablet mode, same resolution as almost everything else, only 0.3 MP camera and only a marginal improvement in portability.
Do not want.
Ha ha, This tells you what a hypocrite of a company Asus is. First, they release 20 iterations of their EEE netbook pc and overpricing them. Then, they compare their highest configured 1000H to a first gen Acer Aspire One. And now this, a total knock off of the competition, the AA1.
I'll go out on a limb :
What you see in the Asus Eee S101 is to be announced small 10" version of the Apple MacBook Air, which will start below $1000.
That will be Apples response to the netbook market and re-positioning of the Air line-up in Oct. 2008.
I'd be careful on that limb if I were you - you'll likely fall off...
I hate SSDs. They are damn expensive !!! Why cant they offer SATA drives for those who want more storage...?!!?!?
And the HSUPA is MISSING !!!!
I have a feeling people are curious of the size compared to a MacBook Air so I put them both into sizeasy.
http://www.sizeasy.com/page/size_comparison/18305-Apple-MacBook-Air-vs-Asus-Eee-PC-S101
So the 904HA is the same price and has the same specs as the 6-Cell Aspire One. Anyone know reasons why it would be better to go with one over the other?
the aspire has a smaller footprint than the 904hd. it's is in the same shell as the 1000h.
the 904HA comes in the 1000H case, but with a smaller screen. It has a keyboard comparable in size to the HP Mini note, so it's basically a 92% full sized laptop keyboard (or close). Over the Aspire, you have a SATA harddrive so you can easily upgrade to any new SSD. PLUS it's a lot more easy to upgrade anything on it. You have to dismantle the Aspire, nearly completely, in order to upgrade anything.
Where the heck is the Dell E Slim, August??? September??... Engadget put the pressure on 'em!
Apple innovates and then the others follow...
...what? This is supposed to be a netbook, though you'd never know it looking at the price. How are they following Apple with a product that doesn't even have an Apple equivalent?
I find it hard to believe that so many people believe Apple is perfect and other-worldly. Rather, I think it's more likely that our reactions and the infamous nature of the stereotype drives the comments. After all, Apple is a computer company not a cult.
Didn't you get the memo Brett?
When making references to devices that copied Apple, the only criteria required is for Apple to have the capability of making it.
I'm sure theres a GM forum where Serge Eluhu said the same thing about the new Camaro.
I hope the S101 has Expressgate!
So this 904HA seems to be just like the 900HA announced a few days ago, except with a 6-cell battery instead of 4-cell?? Great.
And that S101 is just a trendy looking version of the same old?
I'd think about getting the S101 if it sported a dual core atom.
Unfortunately, it doesn't...but I've got to say, that's a pretty thin netbook.
What is it with 0.3 MP cameras? We really should have retired that size 2 years ago.
"puke green" -- hehehehe (depending on what you had earlier in the day)
It's a laptop !
http://www.blogeee.net/2008/10/06/le-eeepc-s101-apparait-dans-les-pages-de-topachatcom-a-57490e/
http://fr.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogeee.net%2F2008%2F10%2F06%2Fle-eeepc-s101-apparait-dans-les-pages-de-topachatcom-a-57490e%2F&lp=fr_en&btnTrUrl=Traduire
Like the thickness (0.6" to 0.8" it looks like)! Nice to see somebody doing something different here, and you've got to give them credit for that.
If that's it for their innovation though, the price is too steep. $100 more for some sex appeal, sure. $200-$300 over a $350-$399 netbook? I don't think so...
For that price it should be an SLC SSD for improved performance, a little more vertical resolution, a better keyboard (they didn't fix the right shift key), and maybe a leather wrapped shell...? At least if we're going to go the whole brown route...
Like the thickness (0.6" to 0.8" it looks like)! Nice to see somebody doing something different here, and you've got to give them credit for that.
If that's it for their innovation though, the price is too steep. $100 more for some sex appeal, sure. $200-$300 over a $350-$399 netbook? I don't think so...
For that price it should be an SLC SSD for improved performance, a little more vertical resolution, a better keyboard (they didn't fix the right shift key), and maybe a leather wrapped shell...? At least if we're going to go the whole brown route...