As I battle my fifth full day of the Flu (which explains my MIA status since late last week), CeBIT is gearing up. There’s no official press release yet out of Asus, but I expect some detailed information on the next generation of the Eee PC based on a post from French site, Blogeee.net. The English translation can be found here and so far, there’s not much we didn’t already glean from the Asus press event at CES 2008.Asus still expects to offer an 8.9-inch display, which I have to believe will run at 1024 x 600 or better in terms of resolution. Blogeee.net expects one Gigabyte of memory standard and SSD capacity up to 12 GB. Since an 8.9-inch display could fit in the current Eee PC chassis, my gut tells me that the new 900 model will be no larger than the current 700 units, which is fantastic from a mobile device perspective. Expect to pay a premium for the extra screen size and storage… thoughts are around 30% over current models, but that remains to be seen from an official word yet. I still think that would be a great value for a very portable notebook.Update: Engadget confirms most of the above details and has some hands-on pics of the new 8.9-inch Eee. Looks slightly larger than the first gen and the trackpad appears to be bigger. w00t!(via Eee Site)
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