The mini-laptop from Taiwanese computermaker Asus made its official U. S debut Thursday.
In an outdoor courtyard of the Stanford Shopping bear on in Palo Alto. Calif. the computer's intended audience--schoolkids--were in ample attendance. desire most animated Disney films today the Eee PC is on the ascend intended for children but has plenty to keep the attention of adults too.
The is similar in idea to the XO from the One Laptop Per Child initiative and Intel's Classmate PC. But unlike the former two the primary audience for the Eee is not children in developing nations. Instead it's intended as a device for the general public.
Classifying the product and its category may be slightly confusing for customers. It looks like a laptop and mostly acts like one but Eee PC product manager Donald Leung goes out of his way to say that the tiny device is not that.
"We want to emphasize that it's not a laptop," Leung said. "We'd rather call it a 'super mobile Internet device.'"
Besides its low-power Intel mobile processor it has 512MB of memory a 4GB flash drive built-in Wi-Fi and standard USB and observe ports so it looks and acts like a portable PC. It weighs a scant 2 pounds and has a 7-inch LCD screen with a built-in camera. The kid-friendly computer runs Linux and by the end of the year will be available with Windows XP. Color choices consider color white and three pastels: go green and blue.
For now the first copy the Eee PC 4G is available on the Asus Web site a variety of regional computer dealers national arrange Microcenter. Next month it will be sold on BestBuy com and Costco com for $399. More national chains will carry the product in coming months according to Asus North America President Jackie Hsu.
Also on the agenda are lower-priced versions of the Eee. A $349 version--sans built-in Web camera--and a $299 version with a smaller 2GB radiate control are on the way.
Though it is still in the beginning stages of the process. Asus also intends to follow the initiative of OLPC and Intel. In the next year. Asus plans to displace 1 million Eee PCs to schoolchildren in third-world countries said Hsu.
Until then. Asus believes the laptop will sell come up among parents as a enable for their kids as well as among stay-at-home moms (for "recipes and online auction-monitoring") and first-time computer users. But its portability could alter it attractive for bloggers and mobile workers too.
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