Eeepc 900 Worth it?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sat, 05/10/2008 - 19:31.
I have been following the Eee Pc 900 recently, and thought it was a great deal. It’s supposed to come out in the United States this month, and I was thinking of purchasing one. But I have also been looking at the Ubuntu Linux line up too. The problem with the Eee PC 900 is that it is supposed to go on sale for $540 - $560 in the US. I can get a much more legit laptop from Dell for about the same price.
Here is a comparison of the two laptops.
Here are some Comparison charts I have created of the two laptops:
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re: Eee
So is an orange worth it (when compared to a pear)?
Perhaps more graphs comparing two simple numbers might help.
UMPC costing too much
Check out http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/26662 -- A nice new Linux Thinkpad for $552, Intel Core 2 Duo processor. No contest which is the better value.
Less is more ? For busy people it just works ? Internet bound ?
Many people who are coming into the computer market wants less complexity. They don't want to carry more of a laptop. They want their children to do well supporting them on computers.
Hopefully, ultra light laptop serves its intended market.
Next product proposed is a mainframe cellphone, even more carefree of a product; you can just use the phone part for the least complexity.
For them, there's the original Eee
The original Eee is simple and uncomplicated and highly portable. These features differentiate it from conventional laptops.
But when you get to the larger screen sizes, the Eee's portability advantage vanishes. You're left with a machine that's "easy" but underpowered. At a price commensurate with the Dell and Thinkpad referenced here, that is a ripoff.
You can make a conventional laptop "easy" too, by loading something like gOS on it. Or, maybe the Eee's OS will work; it's available for download.
The fact is, the Eee 900's manufacturer and sellers are taking advantage of their customers' naivete at the price point discussed in the article. I am reminded of predatory commercial practices aimed at older people, who are induced to over-pay for mundane products by unscrupulous vendors. I am sorry to see a Linux product heading in that direction.