Asus Eee Available Mid-August in the Philippines?

Laptop King Online (Philippines) has also started advertising the Asus Eee PC 701, claiming it will be available mid-August.

"Coming Soooonnnnnnn.... our BIG apologies for posting an item without definite date (ETA) . . . .just got excited seeing the specs and pricing . . . AFTER LEARNING FROM A FRIEND who just got back from the latest Taiwan Computex

storage configurations as follow:

04Gb Flash ---------> 13,999.00
08Gb Flash ---------> 15,999.00
16Gb Flash ---------> 17,999.00

addendum: please wait further for actual final configuration . . . . . official words from our local distro to come out mid August 2007 . . ."

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Hmmm. Those wordings and high prices sound familiar. Wouldn't you know it - Laptop King Online is also owned by PC Corner which has previously been mentioned. Still the mid-August delivery date sounds awfully tempting.

BTW, PhP17,999 is roughly US$350.00, or US$100 more than the suggested retail price being quoted in various sites. Wow.