Dot Com Note

At last it is confirmed. Asus Eee PC 900 will be on sale in the USA starting on May 12. If you don’t know what an Eee PC is, this Wikipedia entry will help you know every thing you ever wanted to know about Eee PC.

The earlier Eee pcs (the 700 series) had 7 inch display. This new 900 series Eee PCs will boast a 9 inch screen size and a price tag of $549. If you can perform your computing chores under Linux, you will be rewarded with a 20GB of flash storage. If you prefer Windows XP, you have to live with 12GB of solid state memory.

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What is so exciting about Eee PC? Being a 2lb sub-notebook, it is the cheapest in its class. The runaway success of Eee PC has created a new market segment for this low cost, ultra light notebooks. Other PC makers are racing to enter this newly created market with their own offerings.

This will be a perfect computing device for most of my daily needs - reading and writing emails, reading blogs and news, writing for a blog post and instant messaging with video.

Though I will not use it every day when I am at my desk, I intent to buy it for using it when I am away form my desk, like when I am lying on the bed and watching TV, when I am on vacation, or when I am out of town on business trips.

I did not like the earlier 700 version because the scree size was too small and it looked like a toy to me. But this one will meet my ubiquitous computing needs for now.