14 DAY TRIAL // Just last week, NVIDIA was reported to have cut prices for its latest GeForce graphics cards, due to the impressive performance registered by AMD's HD 4870, which was also much better priced. This might have actually set a precedent, as another major company, namely ASUS, which is responsible for the Eee PC netbooks, is cutting down on prices for its products. Since these lowered prices are much in the line of NVIDIA's already mentioned price cuts, anyone can see why we can talk in terms of the latter "setting a precedent."
As most of you already know, ASUS' Eee PC family includes several "members," all of them presenting users with an impressive array of choices as far as netbooks go. One of the company's top models is the Eee PC 1000H netbook that, because of 10-inch screen size, is known as being an MSI Wind competitor. Apparently, this model can now be acquired for $100 cheaper than approximately one week ago, when it was released in America.
Initially, users had to pay $649.99 for the 10-inch, Atom-powered ASUS Eee PC 1000H, whereas now they can get the same netbook for $549.99. And, as it also happened with NVIDIA, ASUS too has slashed the price for its top Eee PC model because of fierce competition - from MSI in this case.
MSI's own Wind U100 netbook can be acquired for $499, an amount in exchange of which customers get an Atom-based, 10-inch, Windows XP-enabled netbook that can provide them with 80GB of storage space. This is, of course, a 3-cell equipped version, whereas the higher priced Eee PC 1000H can provide its users with a 6-cell battery, which comes with a rated 7.5 hours of battery life.
The $100 price drop is impressive and will ultimately benefit end users, as they will now be able to acquire ASUS' top Eee PC model at a much better price. Even more, what with the netbook market getting more "crowded" by the day, other price cuts such as this one shouldn't be much of a surprise in a while from now.