Reports from DigiTimes last Tuesday points to Asustek planning to offer a Celeron-based Eee Box on top of the existing Intel Atom systems in order to lower retail price and boost sales. It's pretty obvious that Asus did not get good reception with their Eee Box compared to the Eee PC. When Asus debuted the Eee Box in the Philippines, it had a retail price of Php24,900 which includes a 16" LCD monitor. Asus hopes that by downgrading to a Celeron 220 (1.2GHz), they'd be able to offer the set at NT$7,988 (US$240 or Php11,500) -- which I think is still expensive IMO. How would Asus make the Eee Box edge over the rest and those build-your-own systems? Intel will be coming out with the new dual-core Atom processors (N330) and marketing efforts will be focused on the nettops running those new low-power CPUs. Asus Philippines will finally launch the newer edition of its Eee PC series this week. After last month's launching at Computex in Taiwan, Asus is bringing here the 10-inch Eee PC 1000. Read more in our articles including "Asus turns to Celeron to sell more Nettops" and "Asus EeePC 1000: Price & Launch Date".
Reports from DigiTimes last Tuesday points to Asustek planning to offer a Celeron-based Eee Box on top of the existing Intel Atom systems in order to lower retail price and boost sales. It's pretty obvious that Asus did not get good reception with their Eee Box compared to the Eee PC.
When Asus debuted the Eee Box in the Philippines, it had a retail price of Php24,900 which includes a 16" LCD monitor. Asus hopes that by downgrading to a Celeron 220 (1.2GHz), they'd be able to offer the set at NT$7,988 (US$240 or Php11,500) -- which I think is still expensive IMO. How would Asus make the Eee Box edge over the rest and those build-your-own systems?
Our coverage of asus nettop includes: "Asus turns to Celeron to sell more Nettops"; "Asus EeePC 1000: Price & Launch Date"; "Asus Eee Monitor PC an iMac beater?". Each article provides unique insights and information.