Asus has said they will be pushing their price point down in 2009, possibly to escape the overcrowded $300-$400 netbook arena and compete against the far less capable pocket PCs and smartphones that go for two Benjamins. They haven’t said much aside from that, but could it be that the changes they’re making to the Eee Box are going to spread to the EeePC? A Celeron 220 processor isn’t exactly a step up, although it might help them reduce prices. Personally, I’d like to see innovation in form factor or interface, like HP is trying come January.
Damn, the headline should’ve been “Eee’s all about two Benjamins.” Get it? Ah well.
If slapping a Celeron in an Eee will drop it to 200 bucks, I say drop a K6 in there and get the thing down to 150.
I’m kidding, of course… kinda. But, you get the point. To me, these things need to get as cheap as possible. These things are way over priced for their intended use. If they get down to the one to two hundred dollar range, I’ll take two.
I hear you… but at some point even browsing gets hard. I haven’t gotten to try many so I’m waiting to see what happens. I’d say $300 is a good spot as long as they really do what they say they can do.
Of the netbooks I’ve owned (3), the original Eee, with the Celeron processor, had the best performance. The thing was quick.
Now, I know other things come in to play here (memory, HD, OS, etc.). But, that machine had no problem doing the simple tasks that netbooks are intended to do.
I want to see some more innovation with tablets… there’s something there IMO, just hasn’t been done as well as it could be yet.
What happened to the one that TechcrunchIT was doing?