twitter's Journal: More Info about the $200 Asus Sub-Notebook

Here's a nice picture of the EeePC 701, the $200 ultraportable GNU/Linux (custom Xandros) powered laptop from Asus that will soon be available. Both of these sites have lots of good technical information.

so cool - will I be able to get one?

[stoolpigeon]

from the second link, "initial allocation worldwide is expected to be very tight"
 
I want one of these so bad - but I have visions of them being really hard to find. Oh well- I guess that is good in the long run. I'd love to see more small form factor and affordable devices like this on the market. It's cheap enough that I wouldn't mind really messing around with it.

Re:

[kesuki]

while the asus laptops supply may be short, the XO-1 could ship up to 5 million units this year(they've taken orders for 1 million), although the XO-1 is of course only being sold to countries for the education of children, although quanta will be selling similar machines (not exactly the same machine) for consumers.

if your a child in Argentina, Brazil, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand and Uruguay. then your chances of getting an XO-1 are very good.