That’s the story over at Carrypad, which is based on a Pocket-Lint article “announcing” the Asus R2H. We saw the official Asus press release a few days ago, but saw no indication of price. Allegedly, the R2H will cost 799 pounds in the UK, which is the same price as the base Samsung Q1. The difference is the R2H will have 768 MB of RAM, a 60 GB drive and an external DVD drive. If true, the same price will get you an extra 256 MB of memory, 20 GB of additional storage and an optical drive.
I suspect that this deal is too good to be true since there was no pricing on the Asus press release, nor any mention of bundling an optical drive. However, if this deal does materialize, there will be quite a few happy UMPC owners in the UK. It might be worth my getting a passport and plane ticket! For the record, I checked both the Global and UK Asus site and saw no mention of this.
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