Asus Eee PC 1000HD at Best Buy

Asus Eee PC 1000HD Last week, I menioned that Asus EEE PC 900As were showing up at Best Buy. Yesterday, I was at another store, and they were preparing to put a Eee PC 900A on display as well.

In today’s ad, they have both the Intel Atom-based 900A and the CeleronM-based 1000HD listed. The 900A is retailing for $329.99 and the 1000HD is retailing for $379.99 (USD).

Keep in mind that these appear to be special versions for Best Buy – they don’t have webcams and the storage is different than what you see elsewhere (for instance, the 1000HD you see at Amazon has a smaller HDD, but does have a webcam – the Best Buy version doesn’t have a webcam). As far as I know it has the same 6-cell battery that other 1000HDs have, but I will be investigating this myself.

The model #s are also unique – in the case of the 1000HD, it’s 1000HD-BKBB1

I’ve included an image of the ad as well as specifications below (click “Read More” if you don’t see it) and links to check your store availability.

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Intel Buys Netbook.com

Intel Atom Almost everybody gives credit to Intel for popularizing the term netbook – when the Asus Eee PCs first started showing up, they were being called sub-notebooks, sub-laptops, mini-notebooks, UMPCs (which really confused things, as UMPCs generally had a specific form factor that they followed), ultraportables, lightweights, etc. Basically, there was a heckuva lot of confusion among various companies and various websites over what to call these devices.

Intel stayed consistent in their labeling them “netbooks” and some manufacturers followed their lead.

In what appears to be a show of confidence in the form factor, it’s now come out that Intel has bought netbook.com (how much, we don’t know).

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Future Intel Atom CPUs – Q3 of 2009

Register Hardware came across some interesting documents / charts on PC Watch in regards to the future of Intel’s Atom lineup. While it didn’t reveal anything new about upcoming dual-core implementations of the Atom (Diamondville based on the Silverthorne micro-architecutre) and whether they will even … Read more

Intel Trying to Meet Demand for Atom

Intel is trying to meet the demand for the Atom CPU found in many of the current netbooks (with some netbooks still on the horizon, including offerings from Lenovo and Dell). The problem, according to InfoWorld, is that while Intel keeps increasing their manufacturing capacity … Read more

Asus Eee PC 900HD at FCC

One of the new netbooks mentioned in Asus Eee PC Roadmap has hit the FCC. This time it’s the 8.9″ Asus Eee PC 900HD (or the Eee PC 900HD). Unfortunately there’s not much information on it at the FCC (due to confidentiality agreements / regulations … Read more