Evidence mounts for August Eee PC carnage with $299 Dell E launch
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 09:05.
Doing with a single E what takes ASUS three, Dell's mini netbook looks to be on track for an August kill sprEee. We've already seen Dell's launch timeline and specs, of course, and this morning we've got the hushed whispers of DigiTimes' "market sources" again claiming that the Compal manufactured Dell 8.9-inchers will launch in August for $299.
Dell is coming to the low-cost notebook party relatively late, compared to other first-tier vendors such as Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer. However, the Dell E series low-cost notebook will be priced at only US$299, US$100 cheaper than Acer's Aspire one, and the market sources estimates that Dell can ship 2-3 million units this year.
Shakeout on $100 DVD player form factor ? Not likely? What then?
Asus introduced at a higher price to assure profitability on this DVD player form factor; but it also attracted many competitors. In the end, many DVD player manufacturers(with better distribution) will also come into the market place. With Nand technology in its infancy. Delayed DVD player imitations will be simplifying circuits and use nand instead of more expensive drams.
The future of this form factor for basic cloud computing is extremely attractive. The circuit will be just cpu, nand flash memory, USB bus, and USB monitor(upto 4 panels), USB camera, USB printing system, USB cellphone frontend, USB storage(terabyte system) and USB everything; which build up to a system price under $1,000. The base computer maybe $100.
Footnote:
Nand technology is based on a string of flash cmos transistor. Where the gates will give the string of transistors multileveled output, which is used for data compression. The flash card uses controller to compress data and write on the flash nand structure. The compression ratio of raif(levels) is almost as good as prml(depends on A/D bits in DSP used) on hdd.
Footnote 2:
Operating system for nand flash memory should have Linux 16 mb of executables(window manager as flash screen) and apps also in nand circuit for instant on window manager(think of Austrumi v1.7.2 in the nand, preinstalled).
It(form factor) is properly planned for scalable computer system(stackable USB peripheral devices). Enjoy?