Arun Khan wrote: > On Tuesday 26 Aug 2008, Rony wrote: > > >> in the news about the launch. Even during the initial unveiling of >> the product, they mention very low prices like 300 to 400 USD as the >> likely price and after the product is launched it is much above 600 >> USD. For the Indian buyer it is a whopping 10K above the previous >> rate. >> > > I agree. I have seen the new ASUS eeePC with the Atom cpu on Lam. Rd. > It is preloaded with XP Home ed. no option for Linux or FreeDOS. It is > a whopping 31.5 (roughly USD 730)!! > > Asus is the most expensive one. However at Croma I got to see only the older 7" one with 4 GB for 17k5 and the Acer Aspire One 9" for 23K. It looks nice, display size is just right for a 1.2 Kg lappy and speed is good too but it is overpriced and has only a VGA camera. One difference I noted in this model was that in the device manager ( Doze XP ) it showed 2 identical display cards which means that it should support dual displays unlike the older one which simply had a parallel connection coming out to the ext. vga port.
Dell was supposed to launch its Mini Inspiron on Aug 22nd but there is no news about that. It plans to have Doze as well as Ubuntu models with 8-12 GB SSD and 1.3 megapixel camera. Also a slot for some add on bluetooth card (BT) . BT is however easily possible with the cheap USB dongles. It is to be priced between 15K to 17K but looking at the other products it appears to be just another trick to attract customers. The MSI Wind has gone with the wind. :-) September to October appears to be the time when more of these babies will be launched. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
