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Speaking of $300 OLPC killers, the SF Chronicle's reporting that the $299 Asus Eee PC 2G Surf has officially launched. It has half the storage space and RAM of the 4G models, plus it's soldered on, so noodling around's dicier. The Fresno school system's already handing out 1,000 of 'em loaded up with Windows and Microsoft programs (!) to students; they picked the Eees 'cause they're tiny and cheap. And, it's an actual OLPC snub.
Unlike the mildly unfair outmatched spec showdown—to be fair, it lost on interface and ease-of-use points too—this is an arena where they're in direct competition, since Negroponte has been pushing them to school systems in the states to make up for lackluster sales abroad. Then again, Alabama is more like a Third World country. Also!
The beefier Eee PC 8G model, which had been priced and dated for this month has landed in Newegg's stock shelves, ready for their elves to ship 'em out to you for $500. The extra $100 nets you double storage and memory, in case you didn't want to join the army of modders adding all kinds of crazy shit to it like Cartman's trapper keeper. [SF Gate, Newegg]
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Poor eeePC girl seems perplexed by all the letters.
"I mean, there's like more than 20 of them. That's a lot."
Seriously get a tan and watch some Discovery Channel, bitch!
That woman must be 4 feet tall; that EeePC looks huge.
@ludwigk: it's called foreshortening. the light ing is horrible, for shame.
@omg-ponies: you're right ... that expression says it all.
DEVELOPING
DEVELOPING country.
She can't see the damn LCD screen with those polarizing sun glasses on!
You sure that RAM is soldered in? People thought it was on the 4G Surf, and sure, there was no little hatch on the underside, but it turns out it's a swappable SODIMM just the same. Might be the same deal on the 2G Surf...
I was just looking it on Newegg. What's with the thick black border around the screen. Why didn't they use that space for a bigger screen?
OLPC has 23 hours battery life, E-Ink quality black and white sunlight readable mode, autonomous wifi mesh, dcon CPU standby process, cryptographic bios and image signing security system (to make OLPC unstealable and unebayable cause stolen OLPC are remotely bricked), open source hardware and software, and a real demonstrated cost per unit of $188 while Asus is making a LOSS on the Eee and that's why they are only shipping limited quantities and it's been sold out everywhere.
@omg-ponies: Like Barbie once said (before the recall), "math is hard."
i want the EEE pc 8gb with the 10" screen.
Bah. Whatever. The Eee is plainly photoshopped in. The shadows are wonky, as is the lighting. Her hand doesn't even look right. And the camera - does anyone recognize the camera, and is that a lens cap sitting there?
The poor model is probably reading a book or magazine.
@legerdemain:
She wasn't even on a beach. And she wasn't wearing a bathing suit. In fact she doesn't even exist. Before the photoshopping this was a picture of an empty parking lot.
this has got to be the most displayed average looking model in the world....and it's not the EEE i'm talking about.
@kaneshadow: I'm not convinced that the empty parking lot wasn't shot in front of a green screen.
@ludwigk: There's a whole world of photochopping going on in the picture. I think the ultimate aim is to make the Eee look a teensy bit larger than it really is. That camera looks microscopic.
LOL! I'd love to see someone actually use an EEE on the beach! Maybe that's why she looks so perplexed/pissed.
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