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Asustek to launch £199 Asus Eee PC laptop in UK
Asustek has announced that its ridiculously low-cost notebook, and challenger to Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC, the Eee PC, will launch in the UK on 12 November.
The cost of the Asus laptop in the UK will be £219 inc VAT for the 4G model, and £199 inc VAT for the 2G Surf model in the UK.
That said, that’s still an incredible price for a new laptop, especially one that doesn’t look like it came out of the Fisher Price factory in the 1980s. Built for basic Web browsing and simple day-to-day use, the 4G model of the Eee PC weighs just 0.92kg, and comes with 512MB of DDR2 RAM, a 4GB solid state disk, wireless LAN and a 7in screen…
Both models also come with an Intel CPU and chipset, as a part of Intel’s World Ahead scheme. Asus wouldn’t reveal the spec of the CPU inside, as apparently a part of the deal with Intel is that the CPU spec is kept under wraps. However, many sites on the Web claim that it’s a 900MHz chip based on an ultra low voltage (ULV) Celeron-M, with a model number of 353…
Full story: custompc.co.uk
Photos by PCmag.com
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Why is it we always get so ripped off in the UK, isn’t this laptop gonna be available for $200 across the pond
i checked and the only one of these i found in the USA atm is the 4g model going for $400! if thats right you guys are getting a better price than us!
ASUS Eee PC 4G (white) it is available also in United Arab Emirates?
[...] the Packard Bell EasyNote XS is very similar to the Asus Eee PC. They have near-identical dimensions, weigh much the same and both have 7in, 800 x 480 screens. [...]
how much usually this kind of laptop?
This is so affordable and so Portable.
I truly need to buy myself one of these around town.