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Atom-powered Eee PC landing in June

by Parm Mann on 17 April 2008, 09:52

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Looking for an 8.9in Eee? Might want to wait.

Just yesterday we reported that ASUS would be launching its new-and-improved Eee PC 900, in both Windows and Linux flavours, on May 1st.

We stated that when Intel's Atom processor becomes available, we'd be willing to bet on the launch of an Atom-based Eee, the machine we labelled an 'Eee PC 900A'.

ASUS Eee PC

Well, turns out we were right. ASUS representatives, speaking to TechRadar, have spilt the beans. Helen Ling, of ASUS UK, is quoted to have said that an Atom-based Eee would likely appear "end of June in UK, I would have thought." She then added, "I think it should be after Computex".

Perhaps trying to make it less blatantly obvious, ASUS' Iain Bristow then provided the following statement:

"We all know that Atom is on its way, and obviously all our competitors are saying ‘we’re going to have an Atom machine'. While there hasn’t been anything directly confirmed - I couldn’t possibly say ‘yes there’s going to be one’ - I’d be very surprised if there wasn’t."

We hear you Iain, and we too would be very surprised if there wasn't. An Atom-powered Eee would provide enhanced battery life and could cost less than the Eee PC 900.

Therefore, has the Celeron-packing Eee PC 900, which lands in two weeks, completely lost its value? We think so, and we can't see many tech-savvy users rushing out to buy one now that they know a newer and further improved model is just around the corner.



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Sounds great!
If I end up buying one at all it'll have to be the Atom powered one.
Fingers crossed for usage of the 1.6GHz Atom, not the 1.1GHz, but assuming that, then it'd be rude not to.
Two questions:

1. will it be faster than the current CPU? I hear conflicting reports.

2. How much better will battery life be? We're not talking about a 50% power reduction are we now?

Reviews say the 900 gets a mere 2-2.5 hours of life out of it's battery - I don't think we're going to see that double with the atom.

I don't think the atom-powered eee will cost less either tbh.
atom is about 2-2.5x slower than pentium-m, clock for clock

question is, how are the clocks?