ASUS Releases Eee PC 900 - 8.9 Inch Screen

Wed 2008-04-16 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

ASUS has just announced the release of its highly anticipated Eee PC 900, which features a larger 8.9-inch 1024×600 screen, multi-touch features, more storage space, and other minor improvements.

Here’s what they had to say:

“Amid the buzz of reaching a new milestone of 1 million Eee PCs sold in just 5 months after its launch, ASUS has provided yet another round of excitement with its release of the new Eee PC 900. This new generation of the ever popular PC packs in a whole range of hardware that includes a 8.9 inch widescreen, a 1.3M pixels webcam, the new innovative FingerGlide and 12GB and 20GB storage capacities for Windows and Linux platforms respectively – catering to wider consumer needs while still maintaining the "Easy to learn, work and play" concept by keeping the overall weight under 1kg.”

The Eee PC has garnered huge market acceptance, the 1 million units sold is proof of that. However, many people were apprehensive about the original model’s small, low resolution screen and minimal storage space. Well now that those issues have been rectified, I have no doubt that Eee PC sales are going to accelerate even more. It will be interesting to see how fast ASUS can deliver this product to the retail channel, since they already have difficulty meeting current demand levels with the 700 series.

Click here to read the press release.

By the way, Bit-Tech has posted an unboxing of the Eee PC 900, so click here to check it out.

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