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Asus Eee PC on sale at Best Buy in the States on April 9 for $399: E-book pros and cons
March 31, 2008 | 4:55 am
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By David Rothman
The 4G Win XP version of the Asus Eee PC will apparently go on sale April 9 at Best Buy in the States for $399. At all BB stores? Not sure.
Big pro from an e-book perspective: You can use the same gizmo to download and read your e-books and run Mobipocket and the others to read DRM-infested bestsellers—beyond which the Eee can do much more than the similarly priced Kindle.
Con: The res of the 7-inch screen is 800 x 480. Some folks might want to wait until a pricier model comes out with a bigger, better screen of 8.9 inches with 1024 x 600 res.
Meanwhile you can read a hands-on that from Laptop magazine, source of the above info, and watch Laptop’s related videos.
Related: Ubergizmo and Techmeme roundup. Also see Tiger ad for $299 linux version of the basic Eee.
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Comments:
Windows XP is usually thought to add about $50 to the price of a laptop, but this appears to be the same price as similarly configured Linux Eee’s.
There are many choices for e-book reading software under Windows. Under Linux on Eee’s, FBReader runs natively but eReader and MS Reader have also been reported to work via wine.
You can buy the 8GB version for 499.99 now at dynamism.com
http://www.dynamism.com/eee-pc/pricing.shtml
Here’s a better description of teh dynamism.com offering.
http://www.dynamism.com/eee-pc/main.shtml