Dell readies Asus Eee PC, HP Mini-Note rival
Contract manufacturer mole spills beans
An unnamed executive at Taiwanese contract manufacturer Compal has coughed to constructing an Eee PC rival for PC giant Dell.
Due to ship in June, the machine full specs are not known. But the stated release timeframe is a clear clue to the sub-notebook's use of Intel's upcoming 'Diamondville' Atom processor.
Asus Eee PC and friend: room on that mat for Michael Dell too?
According to the mole, cited by the Dow Jones newswire, Compal will be punching out 200,000 to 300,000 of the wee Dell laptops each month.
Asus is believed to have sold over 1m Eees since the ground-breaking mini computer went on sale in October 2007. That's roughly 167,000 a month, so Dell is clearly anticipating strong demand for its machine going forward. There's certainly been demand for the Asus product, though supply has frequently failed to meet it.
Yesterday, HP announced its own would-be Eee beater, the $500 2133 Mini-Note. Unlike the Dell machine, the HP is powered by VIA's C7-M processor, presumably chosen to allow HP to ship the machine well ahead of the all the Atom-based machines coming in June. Asus, it's claimed, is also avoiding Atom, in the short-term at least, for a similar reason.
COMMENTS
Bird's hands
I've commented before about the hands being 'shopped on from "an older model". To be honest they look like my granny's. And she's been dead ten years.
Photochop
I _think_ they did the shot in the studio then added the background, either that or a lot of extra lighting and retouching.
The sun appears to be shining onto the model's left side,
which means the shadows _should_ fall on her right side, when in fact they fall towards her head.
Another odd thing is the lighting on the right arm: in bright sunlight it wouldn't be that dark.
The way the beach mat is lying on the sand looks slightly odd too, although that's not so certain or obvious.
Am I the only heterosexual male RegReader who's bitchy enough to have noticed the cellulite on her left thigh?
That is Michael Dell
I think they just p'shopped in the hair and front suspension.
I don't know what ^_^ means, but I'd think either 0_0 or o!o are more fitting.
If this keeps going
If this keeps going , soon when you buy the big super size 17" plus semi permanent desk top notebooks for an extra $50 you get a pursebook unit to go with it , so you can leave the monsters at work and save on the arm and shoulder stretching exercises whilst waiting at Terminal 5 for your lost baggage to catch up to you from the previous last months flight from wherever !
Think of all those two for one adds in the January sales , and the mind boggles at the thought of sales of all portable computers pursebook units inclusive at the rate of nearly a million units sold per day through out the world , truly impressive as we have come a long way since July 20th 1969 and the Intel 4004 !
Shadows
Look at the back of her legs they are in shadow but as they are in the same orientation as the lid of the Eee it should be in shadow also but is in bright light. So what is going on? dead easy, the beach is obviously on the sea of tranqulity where the took all those dodgy photos of the moon landings ;).
