ASUS Announces Prices and Specs for Its Eee PC 904

As we presented to you two days ago, ASUTek confirmed the existence of its new Eee PC, dubbed Eee PC 904. Back then, there were few details to talk about except for the fact that it would be made available in the UK and it is going to be equipped with standard hard drive instead of a Solid State Drive.

This has changed, as revealed by website What Laptop today. According to them, the Taiwanese manufacturer's new Eee product is going to hit the stores in the next two weeks. The Eee PC 904 is the latest member in ASUS' sub-notebook family, a series of devices that have been designed to bring the very basics in portable computing experience.

As expected, the new Eee PC has been built inside the same chassis as the company's 10-inch model, the Eee PC 1000, but provides a 8.9-inch display. This screen size can output 1024 by 600 images, which is the same as the ASUS's Eee PC 901. The advantage of this design is that users will be able to benefit from the more "comfortable", full size keyboard.

The new product brings a number of differences, as compared to the other models in the Eee family. For starters, the new Eee PC will not sport an Intel Atom CPU, but rather a 900MHz Celeron M processor. It will be equipped with only 1GB of DDR2 memory and comes with the same storage capacity as the Eee PC 1000, which is 80GB. According to ASUS, its new netbook will weigh no more than 1.4kg.

Because of these modifications, the price tag of the new product has been set to £269 or $528, in US currency. The announcement of the new Eee PC 904 is also going to bring a much cheaper Eee PC 901, namely £299, which is approximately US$587.