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Acer Aspire One is no doubt larger than than Eee PC 901 and it seems like Asus is quite not comfortable with that. DigiTimes is telling that Asus is planning to make bigger models of Eee PC 900 and 901 as Eee PC 904 and 905. These two versions are actually not new versions since Asus will implement same specs as the smaller version, except that they will sport a larger keyboard and will use the 8.9 inch panel. Upgrading battery and storage capacity is not confirmed.

Same price is planned for the new models and will eventually replace the Eee PC 900 and 901 series. Or keep the series at lower prices to better compete with Acer Aspire One.

After their success of summoning the MSI Wind, a better competitor of the Asus Eee PC, MSI has yet another promising child to take down the Eee PC Desktop.

MSI has introduced their MSI Wind Desktops at Computex last month. The rig will sport 1GB RAM, 160GB hard disk, DVD drive on board and WiFi and will come with Windows XP. The business version will come to Europe and Asia this month, but the consumer version will ship by September. The representative said that this will not be sold in US, but US based consumers can still avail through their online store.

[via Engadget]

In just a few days after Asus Eee PC shipped out last year, Cloudbook followed in strong confidence to compete with Asus, but then it looks like Everex stopped mingling with other ultra portables for a while now. I never have concrete basis on this being out of the loop of discussion in every blog I read.

So I glanced on their products site and found out that Cloudbook has not stopped yet. By Q1 or Q2 of next year, Everex is planning its huge come back with a better weapon. The Think Cloudbook MAX.

Think Cloudbook MAX will sport a 1.6GHz VIA C7®-M ULV processor, and will run with Windows Vista® Home Basic. It will also have a larger screen than the previous, an 8.9″ WVGA display. It will feature the usual 802.11b/g WiFi as well but its primary advantage is the integrated single chip Mobile WiMAX solution which allows faster connection to broadband networks. And that’s why they call it Internet Everywhere…

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Few hours ago, I posted that MSI Wind could be available in Amazon by today, but apparently we have to wait two weeks more before it comes real. (Still not confirmed).

According to the email posted at MSIWind Forum, MSI Wind will ship on the week of July 7th. Sounds like there’s still no exact date. On the other side, Asus has confirmed date of shipping for two models. [EEE PC 901, EEE PC 1000(H).

MSI has initially stated that the first batch that will ship will contain 3-cell batteries and that do not bring high interest to the customers. It would be better if they can also push back that initial statement so at least they could make up for pushing back the ship date twice. While this idea could be good, I don't think they can get their target number of customers that easy since EEE PC's are also out on the 8th. Yes, MSI stands out among other awaited ultra portables but EEE PC is still a big factor.

[via liliputing, small-laptops]

Is Asus Eee that hot to trigger competitors to create their ultra-ultraportable laptops? I think it is. Asus should very proud of they have achieved with their tiny beautiful eee pc.

The Asus Eee PC competitors are dubbed as Asus Eee PC killers but I think they’ll have to eat dusts first cause Asus Eee PC won’t be dead.

ECS G10IL

MSI WIND PC

Images were taken from Yugatech.

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