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Asus Eee PCs running Windows are now on sale in Japan
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The Asus Eee minibook PC has gone on sale in Japan running theMicrosoft Windows XP Home Edition instead of the Linux with which itshipped last year. According to The Register,"Asus is bundling the Eee with a 4GB SDHC card, allowing Asus to claimthe 4G-X comes with 8GB of storage. Buyers also get an optical mouse.It'll also be offered with free access to NTT's WiFine hotspot network."
            
The price is ¥50,000 ($468/£239/€320).

          
One issue yet to be resolved is the processor speed. El Reg says:
          

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The unit contains an Intel Celeron M processor rated at900MHz. Windows XP running on Western Eee PCs usually notes the CPU isactually clocked at 630MHz. It's not yet clear which of these two clockspeeds the Japanese model's chip actually runs at.

               
The Asus is veryslow when running Linux out of Flash memory. I'd want hands-onexperience with Windows before buying one, but at the price, it'sprobably good enough for email, word processing and Freecell, and Ialways liked Civilization for DOS....
            
Incidentally, Howard Industries is already offering a Windows version in the US as the Howard EEEPC,but at a much higher price: $657.72. This comes running "Microsoft®Windows XP Professional with SP2 (Windows Vista Business Downgrade)".In other words, you've paid for Vista but Howard has exercised yourdowngrade rights to XP SP2... And Microsoft will be happy as it gets tocount it as a Vista sale.

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