Asus Eee PC to Get Intel Diamondville, Hard Drives

Per Laptop's hour long interview with Asus CEO Jerry Shen, plans for the Asus Eee PC include -

* A 8.9" display and Windows XP: The Eee PC 900 will have a 8.9-inch 1024 x600 screen resolution and will be available in April. There will be an 8GB SSD Windows XP mdeol and a 12GB/20GB SSD Xandros model.

* Hard Drives: Asus is considering offering regular hard drives in the future.

* Intel’s Diamondville will adopted in Q2.

* In May or June, Asus will release “very stylish” versions of the Eee PC.

For the full interview, visit the Laptop site here.

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Regular Hard Drives? What is Asus thinking of again? It is as if they'd rather the Eee PC conform to the competition than to make it further stand out. Quite disappointing, to say the least.

Also Shen is quoted in the interview the initial price for the new model will be $499 but the market will likely force them to drop the price down by June. So I guess he is telling us not to by in April but in June???