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I’m at Intel’s Developer Forum in Shanghai. And of course I was very eager to see if I could get my hands on an EeePC 900. After all, the Atom processor was launched here yesterday. But much to my dismay, there was no sign of any notebooks at Asus’ booth and at the Netbook booth they had an EeePC 701 next to a few Atom based machines from other vendors. One was from an unnamed OEM, the other one a pre-production MSI model. Both with 1.6Ghz Atom processors with Hyperthreading (Windows reports them as N270), one running Windows, one running Linux. Both with 1024×600 displays that looked to be about 9″ screens (there were no specs or other material that I could find).

I’ll admit that I was disappointed, but then I played around with the no-name system running Linux and got pretty excited after all. Intel 945GM chipset, Intel wireless, 4GB SSD, 1GB of RAM. And according to what the people in the booth said it should be priced at about the same price as an EeePC 701 - so about $400 street price in the US. With the 1024×600 screen.

The MSI system (on the left) had an 80GB hard drive, other than that its specs seemed to be very similar. Both systems were slightly bigger than the EeePC, but not by much - certainly still a size that I’d be comfortable carrying around with me.

So maybe there will be some interesting EeePC competitors after all. I can’t wait to see more product announcement. IDF didn’t bring them.

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