Asus is introducing a new line of low-cost 11.6 inch notebooks… at least in Germany. Amazon Germany is showing product pages for a number of new portable notebooks in the new Asus F201E family, with prices starting at 299 Euros.
That’s about $387 US, but it’s not yet clear whether these laptops will be sold in the US.
There are basically three different models, but Amazon has nearly a dozen product pages because Asus is offering a number of different color options including black, white, red, and blue.
All the models feature 1.1 GHz Intel Celeron 847 processors which should offer better-than-Atom performance while helping keep the price tag low.
Here are the options:
- 4GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive, Ubuntu Linux for 299 Euros
- 2GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive, Windows 8 for 329 Euros
- 4GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive, Windows 8 for 359 Euros
Each model shows an expected release date of October 26th — even the Ubuntu Linux models. October 26th is when Microsoft Windows 8 officially goes on sale around the world.
via Notebook Italia
Nice original design there. Oh wait.
Note, these are being sold as netbooks, not notebooks.
Those prices in Euros include VAT of 20% and (probably) the usual European market markup, so the cheapest model probably would sell for well south of $300 (+sales tax) if released in the US.
What exactly do you see as the difference between a netbook and a notebook these days?