Some spokesman has come out of the closet and said there will be a 10-inch EEEPC and also a desktop version (you thought he was going to be gay didn’t you). The 10-inch will feature a 8GB flash drive and not much is known about the desktop.
Now its time for a rant. Currently the 8GB EEEPC is $US499, which means the 10-inch version will be more expensive. If it is $US599, which would be a good guess, it would put it in full featured notebook territory. The 7-incher has a 4 hour battery so the 10er can’t have much more and with Creative adding 32GB to the ZEN, I’m sure Asus could do something with the EeePC.
On the other hand, if the desktop EEEPC was to be cheap enough, it could fill a lot of lounge rooms as Media PC’s or a computer for the people who don’t use it more then a word document and some emails. Plus if it had a USB slot, it would be easy to add as much storage as you like.
Asus have gotten very lucky here, with getting in to a niche market that people absolutely love. They are selling them faster then they can make them, and they aren’t world changing or revolutionary in anyway. I will wait for a massive price drop (which probably won’t happen any time soon) before I would even consider one of these little fellows.
For more info, slide over to the Engadget Blog.