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| by Hamish Taylor | |
| Thursday, 09 October 2008 | |
  
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So let's have a lok at the specifications: Screen: 10.2" WSVGA Processor: ATOM 1.6GHz RAM: 1GB DDR2 HDD: 16GB SSD WLAN: 802.11b/g/n WiFi O/S: Initially XP Home, later Linux Battery: 4 Cell Colours: Graphite, Brown, Champagne The Recommended Retail Price (RRP) will be AU$999 inclucing GST, but we can expect to see some discounting, as has happened with all of the other models in the Eee PC range. ASUS confirmed it has experienced strong sales of both the Windows XP and Linux Eee PC versions. "In this market, there is higher consumer demand for Windows XP compared to Linux (which explains the stock availability for Windows compared to Linux). Linux does however have a strong, more niche following" said the spokesperson in a interview conducted via email. When asked about the recent comments from an MSI sales representative, Jerry Tung, that a higher number of MSI's Linux devices have been returned compared to Windows devices, the spokesperson stated that: "without reason for return there is not really any comment to make, therefore ASUS is unable to comment on its rate of returns for ASUS netbooks". However, iTWire was told that "Basically ASUS has not experienced a large number of returns that would warrant making any comment", and that it "would really depend on the reason why the unit has been returned, eg. is it a hardware, software or OS issue?" So, while the Eee PC brand goes upmarket, ASUS is continuing their support for Linux. |
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