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Asus Breaks Sub-$300 Price Barrier With New Eee PC

Asus logoAs JKOnTheRun is covering, Asus is now offering its Eee PC? 900A netbook for $299 at Best Buy outlets, breaking the $300 price barrier. (The A stands for the Intel Atom chip inside.) This system runs a 1.6-GHz Intel Atom chip, and comes with Linux pre-installed on the 4GB SSD drive, with 1GB of RAM.

At this price point, these systems could be attractive as holiday gifts and more, although we've been covering the fact that some people have been returning their netbooks after buying them sight unseen. Check out more from JKOnTheRun.



Let's Set Reasonable Expectations for Netbooks

Techworld has an intereresting post up today about how Linux-based netbooks are becoming a big driver for business adoption of Linux. We've been covering how netbooks are helping fuel a relatively healthy market for new computer buying, but there are some naysayers. Reports are coming in that many people are returning the netbooks that they purchase. How solid is the netbook trend?


Dropbox's Free Online Storage, and a Linux Client

As JKOnTheRun notes today, free online storage service Dropbox has just come out of beta and is available to everyone. The company has also served up a beta client for Linux. The Linux client may be particularly attractive for owners of Linux-based netbooks such as Asus Eee PCs. Those usually come with very little local storage, and Dropbox will give you 2GB of online storage for free, or you can add substantial amounts for very little cost. Check out JKOnTheRun for more.


Netbooks Fuel Good PC Market News, Says IDC

Market research firm IDC has just produced the results of its global analysis of PC buying trends, and the overall news is good--with low-cost netbook portable systems making a significant contribution around the world. We've covered the netbook phenomenon widely. Significant numbers of these (often, though not always Linux-based) machines are moving, and changing usage habits. Even the title of the IDC report reflects their impact on the overall market: PC Market Continues To Resist Economic Pressures With A Boost From Low Cost Portable PCs. ? Here are the numbers, and why this trend is great for open source.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Huge price drops for Asus Eee PC netbooks.....

Using virtual desktops in Linux.....

Firefox extensions for improved download management.....

Many more useful Firefox extensions.....

Can Google Chrome build an ecosystem?.....

 



Netbooks Continue to Proliferate--Who's Winning?

As netbooks proliferate--based on both Linux and Windows--reviews are flowing in for many of the hottest models. Lenovo's IdeaPad S10, which, questionably, runs Windows and not Linux at this point, has been taken through its paces at Laptop Magazine (see the video). As a long-time user of ThinkPad notebooks, I'm not surprised to hear that they love the keyboard. Meanwhile, reviews are lukewarm for Sylvania's G Netbook Meso, featuring the Ubuntu Netbook Remix operating system. How do these compare to the Asus and Acer netbooks?


The Hands-On, Straight Dope on the Asus and Acer Netbooks

We've written widely about Asus' under $400, Linux based Eee PC netbook laptops, which have been having a lot of success and introducing a lot of users to bundled open source applications. We've also covered Acer's competitive response with its similarly priced Aspire One Linux-based netbook. I own one of the Asus Eee PCs and love it (although not as my primary laptop), and I have tried the Aspire One. Now, our sister blog JKOnTheRun has collected some excellent reviews of the Acer netbooks. Here, below the fold, are links to their findings.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Matt Asay: Digg uses Firefox to extend its reach worldwide. This looks like a good Firefox extension that adds web-wide Digg notifications. And it comes from Digg's Kevin Rose. For many more useful Firefox extensions, see our superguide....

The Open Source Census shows that half of PCs in a giant survey contained free open source software. There is a good slideshow about the results here.....

Is Google trying to push more of its applications into Netbooks (such as the sub-$400 Asus Eee PC laptops)?.....

Speaking of Asus' Eee PC laptops, they're now on sale at Target for $299 and $349.....



Lenovo Jumps Into Netbooks, But Where's Linux?

Lenovo is jumping into the sub-notebook netbook fray with its new IdeaPad S10, to be priced at $399? The diminutive S10 systems are one-inch thick and weigh just over two pounds. Without a doubt, this move comes in reaction to the pronounced success that Asus is having with its Eee PCs, and other small, inexpensive portable machines. At least in the U.S., though, it looks like Lenovo is not pursuing a Linux-centric strategy. Will it eventually do so?


Another Linux Distro for Asus' Eee PC Laptops: eeebuntu

Our sister blog jkOnTheRun has a good story about eeebuntu, a new Ubuntu Linux distribution that is specifically customized for Asus' popular Eee PC laptops. You can go with the snazzy Compiz Fusion enabled GNOME version or go plain-vanilla with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix packages. You can get the distro here, and you can quickly return to the Eee PC's normal Xandros Linux if you want. Quite a bit of open source software comes with eeebuntu, including Working WiFi, OpenOffice, Pidgin, Skype, Firefox 3.0.1, and the VLC media player. Those little Eee PCs are a steal at around $350, by the way. I have one. Check out jkOnTheRun's thoughts, with video.


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