ASUS CEO, Jerry Shen, in an interview with Laptopmag revealed the company's intent of introducing a Windows 7-based EEE PC in mid-2009. Woah! That's yet another Windows 7 bomb after AMD's mention. Shen makes it clear that only some models will support multi-touch function.
After selling four million EEE PCs so far, ASUS expects to sell about a million more till this year end. According to Shen, the screen size of 10-inches differentiates EEE PC from notebooks.
While ASUS plans to roll out touchscreen EEE PCs models, it has no plans to put Vista on its netbooks. A touchscreen tablet is also under consideration but ASUS will share more details on the same in the first quarter of next year. After the EEE Box, ASUS will introduce an iMac-like EeeTop (all-in-one PC) at the end of this month. Even the EEE Stick will be released as a separate accessory priced between $50 and $100, apart from being bundled with EEE PC models.
More Eee PC variants will rolled out in first and second quarter of 2009 at prices ranging from $250 to $700. Apart from that ASUS will announce two more products in January, at CES 2009. Battery life is the most crucial issue and to combat that ASUS is working on a technology called ExpressTest which improves boot-time and battery consumption. However, they're not looking forward to add more dual-core CPUs to EEE systems.