i am getting my 8gb from a fren in tw
anyone interested with my 4gb? pm me with your offer

And how are you going to find a mini-card flash module?
Based on the eeepc's bottom case design, a cooler pad does NUTS

Finding it on the web is one thing.. getting it retail is another.

That's what I meant... because 4GB Robson modules are also sampling di but getting it retail is not that easy as they're only available via system integrator.

Besides, I don't foresee mini-card flash modules "dropping" in price as they're still non mainstream.

lol some guy pm me for my 4gb ee pc for RM300 !!!
reason is nowadays hdd is so cheap 

Just my 2 cents. I don't mean to throw cold water. It's just so nobody has any false hope that they could go to a shop and spent $200 to upgrade their "SSD".

1) I agree that SSD's will be available in retail but this will be in the 2.5" form factor around end of 2008 to beginning 2009. There's the notebook upgrade market and the enthuasiast PC market that would want this.

2) However, mini-card form factor flash cards like the Robson(turbo memory) cards are already out there for more than a year di but are only available to system integrators just like DOM's (disk on module) which was out since the beginning of flash memory.

Reason being is there's no consumer applications that uses it except Intel's turbo memory which is factory fitted (not very well received also, low bundle rate due to the price and it's not like you could go to lowyat to buy one. Wanna buy a 4965AGN card also difficult), IPC applications (SI's again) and the around 50K+ units of 7A Eeepc that's out there in the market. Other than that.. zilch.

3) I agree that bigger capacity memory cards will be cheaper over time but this applies to USB, SD, CF etc form factors. For example:

1GB Turbo memory module (based on 1K unit quantity by disty) --> $23 --> RM76
1GB USB stick (based on 1pcs unit from Kedai Komputer Ah Kau) --> RM28 or less.
1GB SD card (based on 1pcs unit from Kedai Handphone Ali)--> almost don't cost anything
1GB CF card (Kedai Komputer Vijandran) --> almost cost nothing
That's why I don't see what's the fuss about for 7A's unless you're in the industry and can get your hands on things like minicard BT, minicard GPS, mini card HSDPA (then the sim reader is a problem) etc AND are willing to mod.

It's difficult to explain with a few sentence but the way the industry work is that cost.. even if it cost zero point something cent is very important. Let's say Manufacturer A takes 20 secs to assemble something and Manufacturer B takes 15 secs, Manufacturer A will get challenged from folks like Dell and HP etc.

As such, most mainstream notebooks costing less than RM3K (generally speaking) only comes with 1 mini-card slot which is for the WLAN. Only enterprise or premium machines comes with 2 mini-card slots mainly as cost reasons (more stuff you add to the board, the more layers it needs to have, the more expensive... let alone the connector cost)

At the moment, 80% of the market belongs to mainstream class. Just look around the market to see how many notebooks comes pre-bundled with Turbo Memory... and they have been around since June 2006. Personally, I don't see this thing taking off.

Furthermore, the average user (95%) of the market don't paham SSD. No offense the the respective forumers but in this very thread, we have someone asking if the SSD is 2.5" form factor and also people PM offer $300 for Eeepc because HDD very cheap. Remember, the Eee's biggest competitor is cheapo Celeron M+1GB+80GB+14.1" lappies.

Back to the article,

Turbo Memory 2.0 will be released together with the Montevina platform in Q2. Now it's up to 4GB (already sampling)... what Sandisk is offering is an alternative source of the module (currently can only buy from Intel at cutthroat price). Same as Adata, PQI and all the other flash doods... in fact they were showing this since last year's Cebit.

From the article,

eee pc need how many year for it price drop to less that rm 500?

There won't be a RM500 notebook day lor.

If u can wait, there is 2nd edition of Eee PC coming this month or next month... i heard is bigger screen...8.9" screen...   and new proc from Intel??? but price will be higher lar...   

rgds.

With a touchscreen mod on the 7inch 800x480 lcd... EEE can be turned in to cheap ultimate Audio/Video/GPS/Speach recognition controlller for the car... the single core 900MHz is a bit underwhelming thou... 

Or maybe just get a 2 core/quad penryn tablet pc..

im doing bulk purchase 7" touch panel from oversea... any 1 interest to get it?? pm me

p/s: any expert here know how to mod it?? we can mod it together... currenly i hv some guide to done it... but i dont hv skill to "link" the wire on mb.... pm me who interest

Just received a SMS from EVERNEW IT, said got Asus EeePC (without camera), selling at RM1199.
Arrive on this wednesday at Sunway Pyramid, Digital Mall and Lowyat.
Got 5 colors.

But i dun wanna the Surf version.
Demmit!

no one interest it???

Easy to handle these software. And fast too!

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Had install Windows Vista Ultimate on my Eee....hehe!

1.2G left

ok can some kind soul plz direct me to an approppriate source where i can find out more details on the different models of the eeepc?

p/s:wads d maximum RAM u can add to say a 4gb epc and how much does it cost?

but u need a touch panel to that rite ? means u hv to hack open the eee?

Very interested as well. How much does it cost to fix the touch panel?