Asus officially releases Asus Eee PC 900

Apr 16 2008, 8:00am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Yesterday our I4U UK edition already reported on the final specifications and prices of the new Asus Eee PC 900 in the UK. Now Asus also published an official global announcement with the final feature-set.

Update 05/08/08:
Asus Eee 900 ships from NewEgg

Asus highlights the 1.3MP camera and FingerGlide of the new Eee PC besides the new bigger 8.9 inch screen. With FingerGlide Asus brings some Apple multi-touch functionality to the Asus Eee PC 900. For example, with just two finger movements on the touchpad, you will be able to zoom in and out of pictures (great for looking at image details), or scroll up and down for easier document viewing.

The Asus Eee PC 900 with Windows XP comes with 12GB SSD (4GB built-in and 8GB Flash) and the Linux version comes with 20GB SSD (4GB built-in and 12GB Flash).

Other features of the Asus Eee 900 include 8.9 inch screen with 1,024x600px, 1GB RAM, Intel UMA graphics card, Intel Mobile CPU, Wifi, 1.3MP camera 3 USB ports, VGA out, and SD/MMC slot.

The Asus Eee PC 900 weighs 990g and measures 225x170x20-34mm.

The Asus Eee PC 900 is supposed to ship in the next 2 weeks around the world. The UK release is supposed to be May 1st. The final U.S. release date and price is not yet known.

Asus also announces that they already shipped 1 million Eee PCs so far.
Via the Asus site.

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