ASUS Gets Official With The $ 200 Eee PC Netbook X101

Some people thought Asus was really mad when he said it was building a $ 200 netbook. Not a whole lot more than an eBook reader, and certainly cheaper than most of the Tablet PC is supposed to cannibalize the market for netbooks. Well, Asus is proving them wrong with his $ 199 Eee PC X101, an ultra-slim netbook is now an official product page.

Getting to it requires sacrifices of prices, and the chief of these is the operating system. The Eee PC runs MeeGo X101, a mobile open source Linux operating system designed for netbooks, desktops, entry-level, nettops and other devices. They also face a single core Intel Atom N435 (N455 available).

Other specifications for most light trucks include a 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen, 1GB of DDR3 memory (expandable to 2 GB), 8GB SSD, 0.3MP webcam, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, a pair of USB 2.0 ports, audio jacks, a memory card reader and a 3-cell battery good for up to four hours of driving time. Designed for maximum mobility (less than the battery life, apparently), the X101 has a profile that is less than 0.7 inches and weighing 2.03 pounds.

There will be an opportunity for Windows 7 Starter, which will cost more if the price has not yet been announced. The base model will come with MeeGo and Asus and the App Store, where users can go and download applications from the cloud.