{"id":1444,"date":"2008-03-26T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/2008\/03\/26\/asus-eee-pc-900-will-have-touchscreen\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T21:32:00","slug":"asus-eee-pc-900-will-have-touchscreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/2008\/03\/26\/asus-eee-pc-900-will-have-touchscreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Asus Eee PC 900 Will Have Touchscreen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/asus-eee-pc-900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/images\/t\/asus-eee-pc-900-t.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Asus Eee PC 900\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a> Looks like the big brother of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/asus-eee-pc\">Asus Eee PC<\/a><\/strong>, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/asus-eee-pc-900\">Asus Eee PC 900<\/a><\/strong> will be sporting a 9&#8243; (8.9&#8243; actually) touchscreen display after all!<\/p>\n<p>Digitimes is reporting on the 8.9&#8243; sequel to the wildly popular 7&#8243; Eee PC, mentions that in addition to touchscreen displays, there might be a possibility of GPS options.  This, according to Kevin Lin, who is the Vice President of Asustek Sales (which makes him a very reliable source).<\/p>\n<p>We are talking about a price of around $500 USD ($15,000 NT).<\/p>\n<p>The Eee PC series has been a little behind on meeting demand, however Asustek plans on shipping five million of these in 2008 (I&#8217;m assuming both the 7&#8243; and 8.9&#8243; versions).  According to Lin, part of the holdup right now is a lack of batteries, due to a fire eariler this month, but that should resolve itself soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20080325PD226.html\">DigiTimes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the big brother of the Asus Eee PC, the Asus Eee PC 900 will be sporting a 9&#8243; (8.9&#8243; actually) touchscreen display after all! Digitimes is reporting on the 8.9&#8243; sequel to the wildly popular 7&#8243; Eee PC, mentions that in addition to &#8230; <a title=\"Asus Eee PC 900 Will Have Touchscreen\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/2008\/03\/26\/asus-eee-pc-900-will-have-touchscreen\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Asus Eee PC 900 Will Have Touchscreen\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,82,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}