Good news about that perky little Asus Eee, is that its manufacturer is inviting visitors to the Consumer Electronics Show next week to ‘join ASUS, Intel and Sprint to learn about the state of Wimax technology, preview next-generation mobile solutions (including the next generation Eee PC)’.
Adding Wimax to the Eee is a nice idea. A better idea is to produce a Windows version. A reasonable idea to save power is removing the fan. A good idea is increasing the screen size from seven to ten inch. A magnificent idea is increasing the SSD memory capacity from 4GB to 8GB.
All the above may be included in a new Eee to come out in March for around the same $500/£250 price point as the original Eee.
The Eee derived from an Intel spec for sub-contracting the manufacture of its Classmate laptop which Intel targeted as a rival to MIT’s AMD-based One-Laptop-Per-Child machine.
Asus decided that it could make a machine under its own name for the Taiwan educational market.
And a star was born.
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