[IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

[Christoph Derndorfer]

FYI: Directron in the United States now accepts pre-orders for the X101
at a price point of $209: http://www.directron.com/x101eu17bk.html?gsear=1

If anyone goes for it please let me know what you think about it,
especially as a platform for education projects. Unfortunately it's
still not available on this side of the big pond:-/

Cheers,
Christoph

Am 30.05.2011 16:55, schrieb Christoph Derndorfer:
> Hi all,
> 
> it's still early days but it looks like the ASUS Eee PC X101 presented
> at a pre-Computex press event today could be a good platform for Sugar.
> At a price-point of $199, less than 1kg of weight, and with a 1.33GHz
> Intel Atom CPU this really does look like an interesting product for
> schools, both in developing and developed nations.
> 
> Since it runs Meego I would assume that on the software side of things
> getting other Linux distributions to run on it shouldn't be too hard,
> but others will know more here.
> 
> Engadget has a quick hands-on video of the X101 which might of interest
> to some of you:
> http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/30/asus-brings-out-extra-skinny-eee-pc-x101-running-meego-hands-on/
> 
> Anyway, I'll definitely keep an eye on this one! :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Christoph
> 

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Christoph Derndorfer
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e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com