Prices announced - shortage until third quarter...

Solinx · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 11:47 am

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Micro-Star International (MSI) company chairman Joseph Hsu recently discussed the products the company will be showcasing at Computex 2008, including motherboards and low-cost PCs.

MSI will also launch an Windows XP version of its 10-inch Wind notebook in three different colors, including black, white and pink and will feature two different battery configurations. A six-cell pack will allow the notebook to run for six hours, but the price of the notebook will be around NT$18,900 (US$620), while a notebook with a three-cell battery will be priced around NT$17,900, noted Hsu.

The company will launch a 8.9-inch Wind notebook in July or August and will try to maintain the gross margin of the product line at around 10-15%.

Hsu stated that a shortage of notebook batteries and Intel's Atom processors is each at around 50% and that the shortage will not be resolved until the end of the third quarter of this year.

Source
Thanks to vrzone24hrs for bringing it to the attention.

3 Cell:
NT$17,900
US: $ 587.00 USD

Australia: $ 612.061 AUD
Canada: $ 579.927 CAD
EU: € 377.018 Euro
Singapore: $ 802.970 SGD
UK: £ 296.631 GBP

6 Cell:
NT$18,900
US: $ 620.00 USD

Autralia: $ 646.681 AUD
Canada: $ 612.399 CAD
EU: € 398.516 EUR
Singapore: $ 847.952 SGD
UK: £ 313.255 GBP

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Important note: This direct conversion is excluding any taxes and/or import costs.

Cheers,
Solinx

doody · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:06 pm

Not looking good, the price increase for the 6-cell is quite significant. I wonder if this is going to change the prices that are currently being offered for the pre-order in Singapore (it's SGD799 now).

Solinx · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:12 pm

Wasn't that with a SGD30 reduction on the normal price? If so, a rise from 830 to 850 isn't that much...

With the normal 3 cell price being SGD800, the pre-order deal should drop to SGD770

ah... taxes probably make my reasoning invalid.

Solinx

staker · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:21 pm

Those prices seem reasonable to me, you could always look at an 3rd party battery!

doody · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:35 pm

Solinx wrote:

Wasn't that with a SGD30 reduction on the normal price? If so, a rise from 830 to 850 isn't that much...

With the normal 3 cell price being SGD800, the pre-order deal should drop to SGD770

ah... taxes probably make my reasoning invalid.

Solinx

Yep, it's 7% more here, which makes it SGD850 by your calculations. Still, USD630 for the 6-cell one is dangerously approaching the price of the Eee PC 901, and people will start to draw comparisons.

doody · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:35 pm

staker wrote:

Those prices seem reasonable to me, you could always look at an 3rd party battery!

Which might explode and take my MSI Wind along with it

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staker · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:38 pm

You seem to be worried for no reason, all you need to do is watch the temperature of the battery, it is just as likely to blow up as a normal battery is.

Solinx · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:40 pm

It's USD 620

People will compare anyway. Important aspect being that for USD 620 they get the 6 cell version which should lasts longer than the EEE 901.
Small differences perhaps, but both in the advantage of the Wind

Solinx

staker · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:42 pm

I think 620 dollars is equivilent to 315 pounds which is the smae price as a 900, but actually cheaper!

Solinx · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:44 pm

Pounds! Forgot to add those, good one

First post will be updated in a min.

And you're right. USD 620 is about 315 in Pounds. Don't forget about taxes and import costs tho

Solinx

staker · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:45 pm

How could you forget the sterling!!

doody · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:45 pm

staker wrote:

You seem to be worried for no reason, all you need to do is watch the temperature of the battery, it is just as likely to blow up as a normal battery is.

Nah, normal batteries have quality checks. There's still a chance they'll blow up, but it's probably lesser.

doody · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:46 pm

staker wrote:

I think 620 dollars is equivilent to 315 pounds which is the smae price as a 900, but actually cheaper!

But the Eee PC 900 is going to be discontinued - general-discussion/more-900-wind-the-new-bestseller-t90.html

staker · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:48 pm

Well yes, but they are still being sold in this country, and discontinued does not mean they are taking them off the shelves but just not replenishing stock.
The 901 Is 650USD which again the MSI Wind undercuts.

Solinx · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:53 pm

staker wrote:

How could you forget the sterling!!

If you could just have adopted the Euro things would have been so much easier

doody · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:54 pm

staker wrote:

Well yes, but they are still being sold in this country, and discontinued does not mean they are taking them off the shelves but just not replenishing stock.
The 901 Is 650USD which again the MSI Wind undercuts.

Before that, the price difference was a lot better: USD549 vs USD650.

staker · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:55 pm

We will when our economy collapses, so probably some time next year. lol

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Before that, the price difference was a lot better: USD549 vs USD650.

Yes but they only release low figures to capture our attention they would not say its overpriced!

Kozmic · **Joined:** Mon May 19, 2008 12:49 pm **Posts:** 89

Damn. Bad (but expected) news. I really hope the Linux prices will stay closer to the earlier $399. Any news on that?

hiramani · **Joined:** Tue May 27, 2008 4:18 pm **Posts:** 102

priced hiked like gasoline (petroleum). I dont like this.

doody · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 3:01 pm

Kozmic wrote:

Damn. Bad (but expected) news. I really hope the Linux prices will stay closer to the earlier $399. Any news on that?

Let's just wait until the product is launched on 3rd June. By then we will know the actual retail price, and we'll be in a better position to make a purchasing decision.

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