Windows XP to Battle Linux on ULCPCs until 2010

Ending some spectulation on our part of exactly how newer EeePCs and their competitors would continue offering Windows past this summer comes news of Microsoft giving Windows XP a stay of execution until 2010 for what they call “ultra-low-cost PCs”.
Windows Vista only officially supports 1 Ghz processors and up, as well as 20GB of HD [...]

Confirmed: 8.9″ EeePC featuring Touchscreen (Maybe GPS) in May/June

Kevin Lin, vice president of Asustek’s sales department, confirmed to Digitimes this morning that the 2nd generation EeePC will in fact include an 8.9″ touchscreen. This is contrary to statements made by the company in the past which suggested that users were not interested in touch for the EeePC at the moment.

The new EeePC [...]

EeePC Xandros Software Updates Available Now

French website Blogeee.net is reporting that after more than 4 months of being on the market in the US, the EeePC is finally beginning to see some software updates for the default Xandros distro beginning to appear. This is good news for all the hundreds of thousands of EeePC owners who have chosen to keep [...]

Cloudbook Mod adds GPS, flash storage

While its not quite up to the same level of modding we’ve seen on the EeePC yet, its still pretty impressive. Cloudbooker forum member Azazel has taken on the task of modding the Everex Cloudbook to add on some needed features like GPS and some flash-based storage.
What is interesting about this mod is the use [...]

4 raisons pour lesquelles j’ai commandé une HP 2133

For the past 5 months I’ve been a fairly happy EeePC 701 user. However with the incoming crop of newer CLUMPC/ULCPCs its already time for an upgrade. Most can agree that the two brightest stars in the near future are the HP 2133 and the EeePC 900. This week I pre-ordered a HP 2133 Mini-Note [...]

Xandros annonce le soutien de la plateforme de Moblin d’Intel

Filed under: Handhelds
Intel’s Moblin tech is getting some big love at Computex — first Canonical dropped the Ubuntu Netbook Remix on us, and now Xandros has announced plans to support the MID- and netbook-targeted system additions in future editions of its Linux distros. If that seems a little confusing, it’s because it is — Moblin [...]

PC 901 of Eee and 1000-series to be started to $550

We’ve seen the pictures, now the details. What you’re looking at up there are the official specs and pricing for Asus’ new Eee PC series. Up to 7.8-hours of battery (3.2-hours minimum!), 802.11n, Bluetooth, and 1.3 megapixel camera as we already knew. What’s more, the 10.2-inch 1000-series features either a 40GB SSD [...]

Cover of cuts of the PC 1000 of Eee before Computex

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Spéc. PC 901 of WiMax Eee, an older price of PC of Eee crosses

Filed under: Laptops
As you know, Asus will be announcing its Atom-based 8.9-inch Eee PC 901 and 10-inch 1001 tomorrow at Computex. However, the more obscure WiMax Expo show has already kicked off featuring a WiMax-enabled Eee PC 901. While the WiMax version won’t ship until later (for obvious reasons), the 901 models at the show [...]

Touch screen of the PC 701 of Eee of market of the accessories it is supposedly easy to install

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$340 [...]