Saturday, August 22, 2009

ASUS Eee PC Netbook History


Asus has two models of the Eee PC at COMPUTEX Taipei 2007, the Eee PC 701 and Eee PC 1001 The base model 701 Eee PC 4G was 16 October 2007, Taiwan. Three additional models followed. The originally announced second model (1001) was also expected, but in consequence abandoned Asus
Plans to exempt on the market. Asus sold more than 300,000 units in 2007 and looks to sell several million dollars in 2008. Intel than the Eee PC in line with its "World Ahead" marketing drive, aimed at any person in the world a chance on a PC.

As long as the prices and the size of the device are small compared with the Ultra-Mobile PC. The Eee series is a response to the XO-1 laptop One Laptop per Child initiative. At the Intel Developer Forum 2007, and has shown the Asus Eee PC Classmate PC, and the list of specifications for four models of the Eee PC. Asus in time for the models of May from US$199, and the prices and characteristics of the US$399.

The final price and specifications of the Eee PC was officially announced in September 2007, unlike the original Asus plans. The prize is US$245, from US$199, while the size of the hard disk was included from 4 GB to 2 GB, the VGA camera was canceled, and the RAM was halved to reduce 256 MB. On 25 October 2007, the price range was US$50-100. The 2G Surf is up for sale with 64 MB included.

Since 13 October 2007, the Asus website shows revised specifications. In some countries, the products that bear the name EEEPC 8G, 4G, 4G Surf, and 2G Surf, although in other countries, the machines are always by the numbers 700 and 701 model. The 4G Surf uses socketed RAM but some Corrections are not an access to housing.

Asus has a desktop version of Eee PC, without an integrated display, which in 2008 will be published. Asus has announced that a version of the Eee PC with Microsoft Windows XP already installed by the end of the year 2007. But it was not released before January 2008. Japan, is known as the 4G-X.

An Eee PC 4G published on 2 February 2008, in the city of Mumbai, India, and is compatible with the Xandros operating individually and not by Windows XP Starter Edition. From 5 April 2008 Asus plans to sell two versions of the Asus Eee PC with Windows XP. One of them comes with 8 GB Solid-State-4 GB SDHC Card. The second version is sold without the SDHC. Windows XP and Xandros Linux versions of the Eee PC will be offered for sale to the same price. The Windows version is also planned for Microsoft Works 9.0, a Linux version comes with OpenOffice.


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