While browsing around for something completely different, I came across this advert for the new Eee 1000, which was rumoured to launch on July 8th. Funnily enough, that’s today! With a pricetag, it is in dangerous waters, competing against bargain machines from Dell, Acer and HP/Compaq (not the Mini-Note though, thats ~$900 here).

I posted my thoughts on these larger, more expensive Eee’s in my Eee 701 “review”, and I stand by my opinion that the Eee branding is moving too far out of the price bracket it set out to target. I’ve found the Eee 701 for as low as AU$319 here, less than half the price of this new model. Sure it has a low-res screen, tiny storage space and only 512MB of memory, but it’s cheap. $648 just isn’t.

Going to see if my local JB Hi-Fi has them in stock so I can take a look!