Originally posted on May 2, 2008 @ 5:04 pm
I whipped out my ASUS EEE at a meeting this week for a new project I’m working on. As expected two of my teammates got intrigued by the diminutive size of the machine and got more surprised when I told them how much it costs. A few days later, at another meeting those two approached me to say that they are going to buy an EEE in a couple of weeks. I told them it’s a good investment but they might want to hold off for a few more weeks because the 900 series is already available. The two said that they’ll think about it.
My last conversation with them actually left me wondering, too. With the 900 series available, the lure of the bigger capacity and screen size is really something that will make you take pause. But the attendant price increase is the one niggle that is not really sitting well with me. With the new price point for the 900, you can get a full featured budget laptop for the same price. ASUS may have forgotten that the price point is one of the biggest selling factors for getting an EEE. By eliminating that advantage, the EEE is shown for what it really is, a low featured laptop.
I hope that ASUS gets its act together especially when they announce the release of the Intel Atom EEEs.