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Archive for October 15, 2008
$300 Eee PC 701SDX Pictures Show Up
Oct 15th
Here comes probably another variant of the original Eee PC – the Eee PC 701SDX. Our friends over at Eee PC News got some picture of the new Eee PC model and reported that said netbook would come with a $300 price tag. Now, if the Eee PC 701SDX would come with a storage of not less than 4GB SSD, then it would definitely be a cheaper version of the Eee PC 700 4G. The Eee PC 4G retails for around $350 at Amazon right now.
The Eee PC 701SDX might also come without the webcam and the OS will most probably be a Linux version rather than Windows XP because of its price tag.
But the most important question would be is whether the Eee PC 701SDX would still have the Celeron CPU or the newer Intel Atom processor used by the current crop of netbooks.
No words yet on when this Eee PC 701SDX would be available. But it will come in the standard black and white color design as well as a more feminine Pink.
Via Electronista
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
$300 Eee PC 701SDX Pictures Show Up
Eee PC Gets a Book on Using the Eee PC
Oct 15th
There’s certainly no doubt now about the popularity of the Eee PC. With so many models around the market, someone even wrote a book detailing the what and how’s of the said netbook.
This is of course the first book that speaks about the Eee PC and gives instructions on turning it on, connecting it to the Internet, upgrading the machine, updating and to simply put, getting the most out of the Eee PC.
The book Using the Eee PC was written by Bill Lawrence, a writer, illustrator, graphic designer and web designer. It is curerntly available now at the cost of $24.99 at major US retailers.
And to celebrate the launch of this book, Que Publishing is sponsoring a contest open to U.S. residents age 18 or older. None other than the 4G Eee PC is at state in this contests.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Eee PC Gets a Book on Using the Eee PC
Worldwide PC Sales Grew, Thanks to Netbooks
Oct 15th
If the worldwide growth in the PC market was not due to the resurging sales and popularity of netbooks, then what else could have propel such growth? According to reports, PC shipments during the last quarter grew by 15% as compared to the sales in the same quarter last year.
PC Manufacturer HP was able to ship around 14.7m units which is equivalent to 18.4% market share. Following HP was Dell with 10.9 million units sold equivalent to 13.6% market share. Lastly we have Acer in third place with 10.3 million units sold for a market share of 12.5%.
But despite topping the worldwide sales chart, HP however lost its position in the European PC market. Well, anyone can attribute this to the lackluster performance of HP’s entry into the netbook market – the HP Mini Note 2133. In the US PC market, Dell is dominating the chart with 29.5% market share, HP at second with 25.7 market share and Apple landed on number 3 with 9.5% market share. Sales of netbooks accounted for around .
One doesn’t have to think too deeply to know that Acer’s position was somehow propelled by its netbook the ACER Aspire One which is growing more popular among netbook users.
If HP pushed their netbook a little farther, they might have taken a bigger percentage of the PC market.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Worldwide PC Sales Grew, Thanks to Netbooks
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