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Intel Atom on the New EeePC

Posted on | March 12, 2008 | 7 Comments

Asus’s chief executive officer, Jerry Shen revealed details of their upcomming EeePC. he told Laptop Magazine that he prefers Intel’s Diamondville processor over Via’s Isaiah chip.

Slowly but surely, we are seeing the EeePC getting more features , including wireless broadband. However, the new EeePCs will be more expensive than the debut model but Shen believes that there will be a price drop in the future.

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The EeePC will be shipping with an Atom processor (Diamondville core) in May, according to the executive. Apparently, Asus is not planning with Via’s next mobile processor Isaiah, which Via claims is faster than Atom while consuming about the same power. Shen said that Diamondville is “competitive” in terms of pricing and has the advantage that it is built in 45 nm.

Shen shared that the Eee PC will get:

  • A 8.9-inch display and Windows XP: The new Eee PC will have a 8.9-inch screen and a higher 1024 x 600-pixel resolution An 8GB SSD will be available running Windows XP. A 12GB or 20GB SSD model will be available with Xandros.
  • Hard Drives: Asus is considering giving customers a choice between their current offering of solid state drives and regular hard drives in the future.
  • Intel’s Diamondville: The low-cost notebook platform will adopt Intel’s Atom processor in Q2 rather than VIA’s mobile computing platform.
  • More Colors and Stylish Looks: In May or June, Asus will release “very stylish” versions of the Eee PC.

    For me this is tempting with the specs above. A 10″ screen would probably much better, so that’s something to look for. I am puzzled though on why Asus choose a crippled version of Xandros rather than Ubuntu.

    Ubuntu has a rapidly growing cult following out there, probably the number one mod to the Eee is to stick some form of ‘buntu on it. Both are completely free, so how about it?

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    7 Responses to “Intel Atom on the New EeePC”

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    3. Michael Aulia AUSTRALIA Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12
      March 13th, 2008 @ 8:36 pm

      Windows XP? Weird, while Microsoft is trying to push Vista hard to every single machine out there

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    4. vance PHILIPPINES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0b4
      March 14th, 2008 @ 9:09 am

      yup.. very insteresting… especially MSI will be also releasing their own line of subnote book called Wind!

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    5. vance PHILIPPINES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0b4
      March 14th, 2008 @ 9:31 pm

      @michael how on earth would that subnotebook run a Windows OS is beyond me but Out of the 2 OSes windows XP eats lesser resources than vista..

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    6. Lloyd Lopez PHILIPPINES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12
      March 14th, 2008 @ 11:23 pm

      Michael,

      Vista is just too big (around 15GB OS only) and needs a higher system requirement compared to XP.

      Vance,
      Saw that too. If I remember correctly, they will sell it around $300 or so.

    7. vance PHILIPPINES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0b4
      March 15th, 2008 @ 4:33 am

      actually MSI will be selling for 450USD.

      Another thing I also wondered why the 12Gb and 20Gb has a Linux OS instead of a windows os that eats more space??

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