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

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Asus Germany just announced that the X101 should become available in 
Austria and Germany in mid-August and with a price tag of €169 (~$241).

I think this might just become my next impulse purchase;-)

Am 31.07.2011 04:54, schrieb Ron Feigenblatt:
> On 5/30/11, Christoph Derndorfer<e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>  wrote:
>> 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.
>> ...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.
>
> What will happen to Meego now that Nokia is "going steady" with
> Microsoft? How interested is Intel in carrying Meego forward with its
> other partners?

This is of course an interesting and yet-to-be answered question. If you 
want to keep an eye on Meego related news I'd suggest checking out 
http://www.meegonews.com/ which is doing a great job of covering that space.

As an aside, my personal interest in the X101 is more closely related to 
education projects rather than Meego itself. People and organizations 
are regularly approaching me about using XOs and Sugar for projects but 
the defacto non-availability of classroom-sized XO purchases tends to 
kill their motivation rather quickly. Having another very inexpensive 
solution in this space might just be the catalyst many folks need! :-)

Cheers,
Christoph

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Christoph Derndorfer
co-editor, www.olpcnews.com
e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com