Good news for these tough economic times: Asustek President Jerry Shen has announced today that the company plans to launch an entry-level Eee PC for $200 (approximately 157 Euros) in 2009. By the way, $200 is the price point that companies want to reach from the moment that the market of the ultra notebooks began to grow.
Apparently, this is part of the strategy of the company to increase its market share in the netbook segment to 30%. The boost that can be provided to the product with this prices range could be huge, but also it’s necessary to keep in mind that other companies will probably be forced to follow the Asus path by lowering the prices of their items, or launching low-cost models, which would be good news for all of us.
Besides the announcement about the new low-cost computer, Shen talk about the plan of the company to discontinue its 7-inch and 8-inch Eee PCs, so the production can be focused on 10-inch items.
We’ll see if the $200 netbook will be the last one with 7-inch screen or if we will see a 10-inch netbook for $200 in 2009, which would be awesome.
June 12th, 2009 at 10:58 am
I want that laptop of 200 dolars!
June 29th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I think this is a nice computer I realy like it and I am planing 2 buy one in a week or 2 but once I seen it for this price I was happy cuz it amaizing that u can find computer for $200 can wait…
August 10th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
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October 19th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
i recently bought a white Asus Eee PC and i am very surprised about the size of this machine. it is very small and lightweight compared to my Toshiba laptop.