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AFTER
hitting a sales benchmark of 1 million units worldwide
for its Eee PC netbook just five months after its
launch, Taiwanese-owned Asus comes back with an upgrade.
The Eee
PC 900 comes with a 1.3-megapixel webcam, a larger
liquid- crystal-display screen measuring 8.9 inches,
with a default resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels,
FingerGlide technology and a choice of 12 gigabytes (GB)
or 20-GB storage capacity with either Windows XP or
Linux operating systems.
Users
have a choice of a black or a white casing for the Eee
PC 900 and the central processing unit of this netbook
runs on the Intel Mobile platform powered by an Intel
Mobile chipset. It comes with 1 GB of DDR II RAM (random
access memory) and uses the Intel UMA display card to
run its graphics.
It also
comes with high-definition audio delivered by built-in
speakers, built-in Wi-Fi capacity of up to 802.11b/g,
slots for SD and MMC cards, as well as three universal
service bus ports; as well as earphone, microphone and
video output jacks.
All this
is packed into a PC that fits inside the average woman’s
handbag, at only 22.5 cm wide, 17cm deep and 3.38 cm
thick.
The new
Eee PC weighs in at just 0.99 kilos and comes with a
P24,990 price tag. The souped-up Eee PC was developed as
a result of “vital feedback...which spurred us on to
create more options to cater to different user
requirements,” Asus Technology
Philippines
country manager Leon Yu said.
AsusTek
Computer Inc. product manager Vivian Hung said the Eee
PC target markets include “housewives and ladies” who
are using com-puters for the first time or who want “a
portable, tough, yet easy-to-use laptop that they can
fit into their handbags,” as well as students for whom
the Eee PC will serve as “a tool to enhance learning.”
The new
Asus netbook also comes preloaded with the Skype
voice-over-Internet protocol and InterVideo software for
video-streaming capability, Hung said. |
