Asus EEE PC heats competition amongst portables …

June 4th, 2008 by Annkur

Asus EEE is a little wonder, and at that price its a thunder! In recent days we came across multiple reports of Ultraportables from Dell, Sony, and others. And every time a budget portable is being discussed the name “EEE” crops in. Asus has certainly taken a head start in this segment and in the coming days we shall witness some really kewl Low Budget Ultraportable Notebooks! Here are a few…

Any touch device today becomes a direct competitor to the iPhone, and here when it comes to portable notebooks any new release is considered a “EEE Killer or a EEE Competitor”.

Sony Via Based Ultra-portable:

The OpenBook reference design is developed by Via to help system makers that want to use the company’s C7-M processor. Sony’s Via based budget notebook is really small at 8.9″. And quite a lot of specs has leaked onto the web…

Via 1.6 GHz C7-M CPU + VX800 chipset
8.9-inch LCD
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
60GB hard disk + 1GB RAM
3 USB ports
4-in-1 card reader
Windows Vista Home Basic
240 x 175 x 36.2mm and 1Kg

Acer Aspire One:

The Aspire One is rumored to be a 8.9″ Ultra Portable. Although the leaked spy shot above doesn’t appear to feature Windows the Win key on the keyboard makes me happy! This one is said to be running on Intel Atom.

Dell Mini Inspiron:

Another sub 500$ ultra-portable coming up from DELL. Will offer Windows XP or Ubuntu Linux, also features ‘8 in 1′ card reader, inbuilt webcam, wireless connectivity (wifi+bluetooth?) and dedicated media buttons! (btw the name Mini-Inspiron isn’t official yet!).