Sub-£100 Eee rival ship date slips
Arriving in time 'for new school year'
Elonex's eagerly anticipated sub-£100 laptop will appear later than expected. Originally touted to turn up this month, the would-be Eee PC beater may now not appear until September.
Elonex's One: orginally due this month
Register Hardware readers who coughed up the £10 "reservation deposit" required to place an advance order for the Elonex One have no been told that only "early ship (beta test)" machines will now go out before the end of June.
"Remaining deliveries... will be shipped on a first ordered, first delivered basis... will be made prior to the new school year," an email sent out by Elonex pledged.
Elonex One and friend: in your home by September
Next term kicks off in early September in the UK, which is fair way to wait for a Small, Cheap Computer you may have ordered as early as February, which is when Elonex announced and began taking orders for its new machine.
Elonex's website notes that its initial batch of 200,000 One and One+ machines - the latter ups the memory from 128MB to 256MB, the on-board solid-state storage from 1GB to 2GB, and adds Bluetooth - have all been sold, which adds up to £2m in deposits.
Both machines sport an Eee like 7in, 800 x 480 display, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, three USB 2.0 ports, a three-cell battery and a "splash-proof" removable keyboard. The 300MHz LNX Code 8 processor and all the other internals sit behind the screen rather than beneath the keyboard.
COMMENTS
Beard
It looks like she's got an amish style beard (left cheek).
And copy all the top heavy comments. That issue really needs laying to rest before anyone sane would consider buying one.
Also, what's with the lack of imagination with product naming these days?
Elonex One
Acer Aspire One
Asus EEE
Dell E
MSI Wind
Apple Air
Tipping
As nice as the girlie is, if she takes her hand off the machine, its going to tip over backwards isn't it?
The One
As discussed before the eee girl is a cheap trashy one night stand, the elonex girl is the one to take home and make inteliigent classy babies with, not some cheap trash who i bet doenst even have matching collar and cuffs
Nice little earner
Like David says, what's their excuse? They have lots of money to play with (all of our £10 reservations) and haven't yet delivered the goods. From the initial fees they will have earned a pretty penny from interest. Still, from what they said in their email yesterday we should be receiving more information this month.
DoesWhat.com
What is their excuse?
This has been identified as a rebranding of an existing product - does it really take so much effort to make a stick-on badge? Or is it because they've woken up to the fact that the Eee PC is now on to its third generation and the laptot market's hotting up in general, so the only selling point to their offering is that it's cheap, really cheap? Odds on that the released product will differ quite substantially from that pictured to date. Odds on also for voluntary money back on the deposits, when it's realised that a better screen, more flash etc won't fit under a ton.
