[wellylug] Asus Eee PC 701

[Mark Foster]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, thefrasers wrote:

> A trip to DSE in Lower Hutt last night in search of one of
> these brought to light two interesting factors. That they
> are now hard to find south of the Bombays, and that if you
> choose your Budget PC in M$ OS it will cost you 25% more
> than one housing a Penguin. Curiously, the M$ ones were
> white and the Linux black. Put a new perspective on it all,
> did that.

The colour is irrelevant - that's not a marketting issue, either are 
available in either colour as far as im aware.

My wife has a 900 series in white; it came with winxp and 12 gigs SSD. For 
the same dollars the Linux version comes with 20Gigs. So they cost the 
same.

At the 700 series level I believe there was a cost difference which 
essentially represents the windows license cost. That much is a given.

Not sure what perspective changes the above offers, but if theyre becoming 
scarce, that could be an issue.

search for 'XC5818' on www.dse.co.nz - their availability figures indicate 
less than 3 in stock if the store name is in italics, however, their 
online store has stock and there's no indication that theyre quitting the 
product.  DSE Head Office are usually pretty happy to deal with product 
enquiries so you could always email them if you have concerns.

Mark.