Update on Pricing and Availabilty of the Asus Eee

From a post (#16) by kzetts in a thread in the Eeeuser forum -

I've called Asus Notebooks Sales/Support 4 times this morning, and I believe a have confirmed some information. First, all four support reps have confirmed mid-September as the launch time. Also, all four reps have informed me that the 4 and 8 Gb models will ship first, and then they will release the 16GB model based on the popularity of the prior...All of the reps have also confirmed that the Asus Eee PC is NOT planned to be sold in retail stores like Bestbuy, Circuit City, CompUSA, or Walmart. They told me that the Eee will be sold by the same resellers that are currently distributing existing Asus Notebooks, although, if the demand were to rise high enough, they would consider promoting the device in the previously mentioned retail outlets. One last strange bit of information is that they all stated that the PC will most likely use an Intel Centrino wireless card, NOT the Atheros shown here. This makes almost no sense, since the Centrino cards are not fully supported by Linux, and furthermore, crushing any hopes of wardriving...

AsusTek NA Notebooks Support/PreSales
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Ugh. So now we will have to wait longer. September is the start of the -ber months. A little more delay, and we should be looking at October, November, December - just in time for the holiday rush. With NAND memory still in short supply, I wouldn't be surprised further delays (if any) will leave a lot of consumers still dreaming of their Eees past Christmas. And that thing about using Centrino, if true, is simply a major letdown. Well, we can still wish for a little Christmas wish, can't we? hehe