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Asustek to replace Atom with Celeron in Eee Box to boost sales
While its nettop products have not sold as well as expected since debuting four months ago, Asustek is introducing a Celeron version of the Eee Box priced at NT$7,988 (US$240) in order to increase shipments for this year, according to market sources. The company is replacing the Atom processor ...
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Asustek is introducing a Celeron version of the Eee Box
PR News: — ... Asustek are replacing the Atom processor that is currently being used in favor of the Intel Celeron 220 processor. The Eee Box will also come with a 120GB hard drive and will have a price of NT$7,988 (US$240), for the bare bones system. The Asus Celeron Eee Box with a 19-inch monitor will cost NT$11,900. For those wanting an Eee Box with an Atom processor, along with an 80GB hard drive, keyboard and mouse and an Eee Stick, then that price will be NT$9,999. Source

ASUS Celeron 220 Eee Box nettop coming to spur sales
SlashGear — ... , which will be cheaper than the current Intel Atom N270 model.  According to DigiTimes, poor sales of the Eee Box - which packs hardware usually found in the company’s Eee PC netbook into a slender desktop form-factor - has prompted the new entry-level machine, which will go on sale alongside the existing nettop. ...

Asustek to replace Atom with Celeron in Eee Box to boost sales
TG Daily - All News — While its nettop products have not sold as well as expected since debuting four months ago, Asustek is introducing a Celeron version of the Eee Box priced at $240 in order to increase shipments for this year, according to market sources. The company is replacing the Atom processor with a Celeron 220 processor and upgrading its hard drive from 80GB to 120GB, while cutting the overall price, the sources explained. More here at Digitimes . ...

Asus Eee Box with Celeron processors coming soon
Liliputing — ... The Celeron chip is cheaper, and will allow Asus to reduce the price of the Eee Box. DigiTimes reports that Asus will offer a new Celeron powered Eee Box with a 120GB hard drive for about $240, which is around $50 to $60 cheaper than the current generation sells for. ...

ASUS to offer Celeron-based Eee Box nettop
Obsessable News Feed — ... ASUS is re-tooling its Eee Box nettop PC with a Celeron CPU, larger hard drive, and a price cut. The move is apparently to stimulate year-end sales, with the new package priced at $240, sixty dollars less than ...

Celeron-powered Eee Box coming soon from Asus
CrunchGear — Surprise, surprise. The underpowered nettops aren’t selling so well. Sales are lagging so much that Asus is benching the Intel Atom for the more powerful Celeron CPU in an upcoming Eee Box release. The hard drive is also getting bumped to 120GB from 80GB. Overall, Asus still sees a future over this mini-desktops with 100,000 - 200,000 selling this year and over a million next as it the computer enters new markets. To bad nettops are still sorely underpowered by today’s standard.

New species of EeePC to cost $200, drop next year
CrunchGear — ... in 2009, possibly to escape the overcrowded $300-$400 netbook arena and compete against the far less capable pocket PCs and smartphones that go for two Benjamins. They haven’t said much aside from that, but could it be that the changes they’re making to the Eee Box are going to spread to the EeePC? A Celeron 220 processor isn’t exactly a step up, although it might help them reduce prices. Personally, I’d like to see innovation in form factor or interface, like ...

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