Asus Eee PC with contract
As announced at the CeBIT 2008 Asus and T-Mobile are begining a strategic partnership. EeePC by Asus will be available at T-Mobile in combination with a 2-year contract. The price will begin at 99 euro. The cheap notebook comes with UMTS / HSPDA / SHUPA / EDGE Web’n'walk stick with the pre installed drivers, so the users do not have to worry about setting up of stick under Linux. The stick supports speed of up to 7 megabits per second as long as the network coverage is available.
The name Eee PC means “Easy to Learn, Easy to Work, Easy to play.”
The EeePC is a very small and lightweight notebook. For many people it is a cheap alternative to the currently very expensive Subnotebooks. The model of the first generation has 7-inch display and has a resolution of 800×480 pixels. As processor will be used Intel’s Celeron with 630 MHz. The graphics processing takes Intel 915GML graphics chip. The user don’t have to renounce of wireless or webcam. The memory size varies from 256 megabytes to 1 gigabyte. Instead of a hard disk Asus Eee PC has the SSD (Solid State Disc). Currently it will be used only in very expensive models of notebooks. Eee PC has only 4 to 8 gigabytes. SSD consumed in contrast to conventional hard drives less energy and has a greater read and write speed. However, this advantage, will be nullfied with the energy hunger of processor.
It is certainly my opinion, but I think that it is advisible to wait with the conclusion of the contract for a few months because a new Asus Eee PC model that will be published in Europe in summer. The name of the new model is Asus Eee PC 900. It will have a much larger (8.9 inch) display. In addition, the Windows version will have 12 instead of 8-gigabyte SSD, Linux version even 20 GB. Webcam will have 1.3 instead of 0.3 megapixel resolution, but, in my opinion, it’s not so important.
Unfortunately, however, the new model will be around 100 € more expensive than predecessors. But because of larger storage capacity and a display with 8.9 “instead of 7″ with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels, it is advisable to invest the money in the new model.