EEE PC Competition - MSI Wind pre-order

The ultra portable laptop MSI Wind, a serious alternative to the EEE PC, showed up again at Expansys. At Amazon there is only a placeholder, no possibility to pre-order it.

According to the information given on the Expansys sales pages, the MSI Wind (10-inch display, 80GB hard disk, Atom 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM) will be available starting from July 19th in Europe, July 22nd in USA and Canada and July 25th in Japan.

Respectively for the Linux and Windows XP variants

• USA (USD): about 563 and 612
• Canada (CDN): about 601 and 654
• Japan (Yen): about 60000 and 65000
• UK (Pounds) : about 318 and 346
• Germany (Euros) : about 403 and 440
  
• France, Finland (Euros) : about 461 and 501
• Italy (Euros) : about 462 and 502

Please double check prices and availability at Expansys!

I've already announced pre-order availability for the MSI Wind at Expansys, however the product disappeared for a while and is not back.

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EEE PC, MSI Wind, Acer Aspire One, HP Compaq Mininote, Gigabyte M912 for sale: is it the right moment to buy an ultra portable laptop / subnotebook ?

The answer is definitely not! Don't buy an EEE PC, MSI Wind or similar in the next couple of months!
If you want to buy an ultra portable laptop / subnotebook / netbook you'd better wait at until August-September this year.
Last announcement is of Acer, the Aspire One and many new models are coming, also something from Sony. It means healthy competition, the EEE PC is not alone and now we are getting more and more choice at lower prices due to the availability of many ultra portable laptops and also from the announced price reduction for Windows XP licences for netbooks .

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EEE PC Competition - Acer Aspire One

The ultra portable laptops market is getting very busy... Asus launched the Acer Aspire One at a street price of about 330 Euros. The One got an Atom N70 (1.6GHz), 512MB SDRAM, 8.9-inch display , 8GB flash disk.
Acer announced two new additional versions (August) for the subnotebook: Linux with 1GB and 80GB hard disk for about 360 Euros and a Windows XP variant for about 400 Euros.

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EEE PC News - EEE PC 901 with WiMAX!

Asus announced WiMAX support in several EEE PC ultra portable laptops, WMV25E1+, WMNV25E2+, WUSB25E2V2 and WEXP25E2V2.

WiMAX technology allows wireless connectivity everywhere.

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EEE PC News - EEE PC 901 and 1000 / 1000H for Sale!

Asus presented the new ultra portable laptop EEE PC 901 at the Computex conference (Taipei) with the following features

• 1.6GHz Atom CPU
  
• 1GB memory
• 12GB or 20GB SDD hard disk
  
• 8.9-inch display
• Bluetooth and WLAN (802.11n)
  
• up to 3.2 to 7.8h battery
  life

The EEE PC 901 basis version should cost about $559.
At the same time Asus announced the launch of the subnotebook EEE PC 1000, main difference from the 901 seems to be a bigger display (10.2-inch) and hard disk 40GB / 80GB SDD.

I already pre-announced (some details about the new EEE PC 901)

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