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ASUS Eee PC 901(Source: blogeee.net)

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(Source: AnandTech)ASUS plans to announce two new Eee notebooks and an Eee desktop at Computex

ASUS is gearing up to expand its Eee family during Computex. ASUS already wowed consumers and online critics with the original Eee PC 701 4G. In the months following its release, the company introduced new models to occupy price points below and above the original entry – but still didn’t come close to the original $199 vision.

ASUS recently launched the follow-up to the original Eee PC with the $549 Eee PC 900. Although the underlying hardware didn’t change much, ASUS did increase the screen size from 7″ to 8.9″ and increased the screen resolution from 800×400 to a more palatable 1024×600. Internal storage also increased from a maximum of 8GB on the Eee PC 8G to 20GB for the Linux variant of the Eee PC 900.

With pressure now mounting from the like of MSI with its low-cost Wind notebook and Wind desktop, ASUS is ready to launch another salvo on the buying public and its competition.

The first of the new wave of products includes the new Eee PC 901. While the Eee PC 900 looked like a slightly enlarged Eee PC 701, the Eee PC 901 features an all-new exterior with chrome detailing to spice things up a bit and Bluetooth. It also includes Intel’s new 1.6GHz Atom processor (Diamondville) — which features simultaneous multithreading (SMT) — and the Intel 945G chipset.

Next up is the Eee PC 1000. As the name implies, this unit will feature a 10″ screen to do battle with the equally large unit featured on the MSI Wind and presumably a larger keyboard to match – a move that is sure to silence current Eee critics. Not much else is known about the specifications of this unit other than the fact that it will use the same Atom processor found on the Eee PC 901.

The final piece to the Eee puzzle is the Eee Box; which AnandTech has already dissected in preparation for a full review. ASUS’s first Eee-branded product for the desktop market will also feature an Atom processor (of unknown core clock frequency), 2GB of DDR2 memory, and an Intel 945G chipset. Unlike its notebook counterparts, however, the Eee Box will forgo solid state storage (SSD) and will use a traditional 160GB HDD.

The Eee PC 901, Eee PC 1000, and Eee Box will all be announced on June 2. The Eee PC 901 will be available in mid-June while the Eee PC 1000 is expected to make a retail appearance in July shortly after the Eee Box.

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