ASUS phasing out 7-inch Eee PC, original Eee motto, keeping 9-incher
By Nilay Patel 
posted Mar 5th 2009 1:20PM
posted Mar 5th 2009 1:20PM
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posted Mar 5th 2009 1:20PM
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how about "Excellent, Exciting.Expensive." ???
Its far from expensive.
Far from expensive? The whole reason the original eee got any press was because the price point was supposed to be $200. It launched at $300 for the 701. Now the average netbook is $400. Part of the reason the 701 was appealing before it came out was because it was supposed to be so cheap. Now it's twice the price and not much more useful? Sounds expensive to me.
Dag. And I had my heart set on Eastern Equine Encephalitis.
At least you make the "Eee" sound when saying "easy", but not when saying "excellent" or "exciting". Why would I even notice something like that. Probably too much coffee.
lol, 1 stupid acronym to another..Sheesh, no one even cares what it stands for.
I didn't even know what it stood for, I thought it was just the a name.
Eeengadget must have hundreds of posts on these things by now, seeing how many models have been introduced since the original in every flavour imagineable.
I think the Eee acronym on all of their small computers is so annoying, and I really don't want to be like " hey guys I just got my new EEeeeeeeee!"
Real shame. The 7 inch eee is still one of the coolest netbooks. Whine all you want about the screen, but it runs ubuntu beautifully and its' the perfect school computer. Of course its' not supposed to be a primary computer (that honor goes to my black macbook with windows 7 as well), but that's the point of a netbook.
The laptop industry is wondering why netbooks are cannibalizing sales of real laptops. The fact is, they're not really netbooks, just pretty good ultraportables now. There is hardly any difference in netbooks anymore.
Now every single netbook is 9 or 10 inches and has an atom CPU. My eee is slower and has a measly 7 inch screen. But it rocks. I frankly couldn't live without it.
Plus, it has a PROPER logo on the back. The new eees have that horrid Eee logo that looks like it was drawn by a 4th grader. Mine has an ASUS logo on it, and it looks professional.
You'd have to tear away my 7 inch asus eee from my cold dead hands.
AHAHAHAHA!!!!
You got PWNED, bent over and wallet raped..
ADMIT IT!
The 7 inch is the SAME size... The bigger screen Notbooks just have less BEZEL!!!
AHAHAHAHA!
Go to CSI and have them fill out a RAPE kit for you...
Well iGoon obsoletion is a matter of computer economics for you.
When you buy a computer, you must understand that your model is destined to become obsolete. I knew that buying my eee. Bigger screen? Probably. But 7 inches is fine. Atom? I'm not running GTAIII on this thing. But you know, the eee is perfect for my needs. Yeah i paid $400 for it, so yeah I did overpay. I honestly don't find the bezel that ugly. All I need is a machine that takes notes and gets on the internet, and frankly the 7 inch eee is perfect. I'm not trying to run crysis. I'm just running openoffice, firefox, and tetris. And frankly, that's all I ask of a netbook to do. For any other tasks, I have a macbook and a big monitor.
Yeah I overpaid in the end, but every day we're overpaying for technology being manufactured into obsoletion. And to be honest, after a year of heavy use (and another year of use to get out of it before university) I feel this was $400 well spent.
And if you want to rub it in my face iGoon, try and be a little less juvenile about it. A little subtlety can do the trick sometimes.
I adore my little Eee and how unobtrusive it is. I carry it around in my backpack and sometimes I even forget it's there, so light and compact it is. It plays 480p videos just fine with the 'puny' 900 MHz Celeron and 512MB of RAM. The only computer that can ever take my 7" Eee's place in my heart is a 10" convertible tablet under $500.
I never picked up the eee, as much as I wanted to, because of that $400 price point being $200 more than what Asus promised. Now that they're phasing out the 701 maybe I can get one for the price Asus promised us in the first place! I love that they're making them bigger and better and 1008HA is a great looking device, but really doesn't do enough to justify 2 to 3 times the price netbooks were supposed to be.
I've played around with one of those, wasn't bad at all.
This is good. The 9 inch eee pc in best buy for $200 is a great value and I think beats the dell mini 9 because it has 1 gig of ram .
Everytime I go to get the $200 best buy pc its always sold out.
Link plz !!!
heh. that's what she said.
I have never used a website so difficult to signup and create an account for. I've given up and just use my aim login.
Nevermind finally figured it out after months.
And, in the meantime, forgot to say what you originally wanted to, didn't you?
Were the 7 inchers still being sold? Really? That thing is all bezel. I find it hard to believe the price difference made it worth over any other model out there.
and here I am stuck with this lame 3 incher.... :-(
That's what she said!
Call me ridiculous, but I have my Eee 701 (with 2GB of ram) running Windows Server 2003 beautifully, and have it hooked up and powering a 1080P monitor at its native resolution (well, minus 8 pix. on the side as per the mod, which is not even noticable). I use it as a file server, for browsing the web, Office 2007, and I use remote desktop to a terminal server at my university when I need to do heavy statistical analysis. Some big perks is that it uses hardly any power, and it is nearly silent--in fact the only thing I can usually hear is the slight hum of the 250GB portable external hard drive I have hooked up to it. It actually opens firefox faster than most desktop computers I use.
Excrutiatingly Egomanical Ectomorph(s)
Yeah, but can it run Crysis?
What's Crysis?
Is that a joke?
Yes.
I'd like to phase out MY eee901. Celeron+512MB RAM = sludge. Thanks Target. :^(
For me this is the beginning of the end for 'the netbook'.
People will get used to 10-ichers, 11- and 12-inchers will be considdered 'better', the 9-inchers will be phased out after that, and so on, and before you know it, a netbook is just a laptop that is just a bit cheaper, a bit smaller, and less capable.
Though I asume there is a market for just that, I am sure there is still (and will always be) a market for 'real' netbooks; cheap-ass, truly lugable/pocketable, simple computers with a stripped down OS to keep it fast enough, that you can take anywhere, without a lot of thought, and handles most simple tasks fast and easy.
Like james above said, for more complex tasks there's, well, more comples computers.
Yeah I'm kind of torn between the 9" and 10" and wondering about the portability comparison between the two. Ultimately I need something light that is big enough to see, and not much more.
I'm probably going to pull the trigger on the 1000HE today and retire my 701 to ebay for tuppins; after faithful service for a little over a year at my university. It was an amazing piece of hardware for its time that I, like many others overpaid for, but for its time it revolutionized cheap portable computing. I'm almost a little sad to let it go, it will feel like throwing out a piece of history. I've decided to upgrade so I can have a full featured install of windows with a reasonable screen and keyboard.
I'd like to hold out for all the ION possibilities, but there will always be something better. I'm not impressed with current netbooks solid state offerings, so a SATA hd seems like a more logical choice for the time being.
I did exactly this: sold my 701 and got a 1000H. I could have waited for the HE but the H was what I wanted when I wanted it. I've not been disappointed; the extra speed of the ATOM, the 2GB RAM pulled from the 701 and put into the 1000H (they use the same memory!), and the 160 GB HD coupled with the larger screen and keyboard make it the perfect size for my bigger hands. I really feel like it's a better size overall. WAY smaller than my notebook computer yet large enough (and fast enough) do do things like work in Photoshop, Word and Excel 2007, and run everything FAST.
With that said, I do miss my old 701. Just seeing the picture in this story makes my heart yearn a little bit for that sweet little machine.
I'm doing exactly this - My 1000HE will be delivered in less than 12 hours, and my 701 is getting reset and put up on ebay. Enjoyed the little thing, but I did always miss a bit of the real estate, and I can live with 1 more pound in my bag for 3x? the battery life (surf) and the updated keyboard. Oh, and Win 7 will hit the HE in less than a week - exams until then :/
But really - they totally changed the notion of the ideal class / uni note-taker, and I'm more than happy with the 14 months it gave me ( shoot - even wrote a 3 hour exam on it's keyboard). Glad to have been a part of the initial push, and like mentioned elsewhere, ion and the G40 are coming, but so is DDR8 RAM and bio-molecular data storage....
I'll take my chance with the 1000HE and I think I'll be quite happy.
I didn't know ASUS made laptops... I thought they just made motherboards... I always liked their motherboards.
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Don't you mean it changes "eeeverything?" ;)
Maybe eventually Asus will wise up and realize "Rock Solid, Heart Touching" isn't a motto that inspires anyone to purchase their products.
there goes my model, but its all good. i love the ubuntu on it, but im ready for that touch screen Eee, but only if it somehow runs linux on it, which i havent kept up with whether or not ubuntu can run as a touch based OS
shiht ! i love those little guys. :')
The Original EEEPC was wa sa genius niche filler, that sold as well as it did because the proce point, and tech specs and size hit the sweet spot for many a geek.
By oever producing confusing product lines, and canabalising thier own market, Asus are being greedy and stupid. A machine with 9 inches is not ultra portable.
I was one of the first wave of people in the UK to get a 701 and a year and a half later, I cannot even think of 'retireing' it or 'upscaling' it to a larger more powerful machine.
Why? Well the battery life suits me (4 - 5 hours, still with original battery), and it does exactly what I need it to do. It is a full qwerty keyboard, word precessor with added features. I can read pdf's on it if I choose, I can connect to wifi networks with firefox, and as it's light and farily robust, I don't have to think twice about throwing it into a small messenger bag, or even a medium sized handbag.
Making the EEE ranges larger screened (and therefore heavier) and more expensive and even MORE powerful entirely misses the point. A netbook or UMPC is not supposed to be a desktop behmoth replacement.
gee i went looking for info on the 7 inch eee and i found this site, seems it really has gone down the list as i am getting one for free because i signed up with a diff net work provider, not only that i get the wireless , and a phone thrown in as well, so i cant complain, nice notebook for free.