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Five of the best ASUS Eee PC rivals, plus all the news on rumoured Eee models... - Tech Digest
Last year, the Eee PC from ASUS launched, cementing sub-10" 'budget' notebooks in the history pages forever, as other major manufacturers scrambled to keep up with their phenomenal success. Even the gadget-models at I4U News snuggled it into their boobage, as you can see! ASUS is keeping ahead of the game, with several models already released, and more out shortly. There's the original 7" 4G Eee, which had a 4GB flash drive and cost £219, the French model with integrated HSDPA, a touch-screen model with boosted internal storage, and the 8.9" Eee 900 which also has an increased memory and storage, and importantly the option of Windows XP instead of the Linux OS. Not forgetting that strange report from a few weeks ago about a desktop Eee... There are still rumours flying around about more models, with June pointed at as a likely month for them to launch an Atom-powered machine, instead of containing a Celereon processor like before. This will give it a longer battery life, and improved performance. A 10" model is also being planned, according to ASUS, which will hopefully be out later this year. In the meantime, let's take a look at the various Eee PC bandwagon-jumpers, below...
Katherine Hannaford