ASUS may have been beaten to the punch by a few other companies and their
bamboo-ensconced offerings, but it looks like it’s now getting its first bamboo laptop out the door at long last, and it’s taken the opportunity to finally get official with a price. Apparently, the first few 12-inch models will go on sale at
Taiwan’s IT Month exhibition on Saturday, where they’ll run NT$59,900, or just over $1,800. Unfortunately, it’s not clear exactly which configuration that’ll get you, but, judging from the
last word out of ASUS, even the base config seems to be pretty capable.
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Netbooks are going to get a lot cheaper if Taiwanese computer maker Asustek has its way.
The company plans to offer a $200 version of its popular mini-notebook, the Eee PC, next year, Asustek president Jerry Shen told DigiTimes.
It’s part of the company’s plan to get a 30% market share in the netbook segment with shipments of 6 million to 7.5 million units.
Along the way, Asus will phase out the 7-inch and 8.9-inch Eee PCs and replace them with 10-inch screen products, says Shen.
Asus shipped about 1.7 million units in the third quarter and expects to close the year with about 5 million units.
Clearly Asus is becoming a force in the netbook market and with indications that the netbook segment is the fastest growing in the industry, it could very well be the new market leader. HP and Dell better watch out!
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Every setback is an opportunity. Every cloud has a [enough! –gEd]. Western Digital has Taken the lemon that is the new FireWire 400 lacking MacBook Pro and made, you guessed it, lemonade. FireWire 800 (and lemon) flavored lemonade, to be precise, in the form of an update to the popular My Passport Studio portable drives.
Any external hard drive will work with a Mac, but Western Digital has long included extra Mac-friendliness in its spec list — the My Passport Studio even comes pre-formatted for the Mac (a job that can take a few whole minutes otherwise).
The addition of a FireWire 800 to the existing USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 alone makes it a good option for owners of the new MacBook Pro, but the maximum storage has also been boosted to 500GB, making this a fairly solid option for backing up desktop machines, too. The drive has a row of LEDs, similar to the MacBook battery gauge, which offers a quick visual reminder of the capacity available. Finally, you won’t need an external power supply, whichever port you use to connect.
Available now in 320GB, 400GB and 500GB flavors, priced at $200, $250 and $250. The drive comes in a range of bright colours, none of which is lemon yellow.
Product page [Western Digital via Crave]
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