As I’ve previously written, you can measure the success of a product also from the hunt for web domains related to its name, and this frantic search for domain names containing the words Asus EEE PC, E3PC and similar has obviously been terrific and probably still is.
But another value meter is of course the world-wide interest in the subject, which can be clearly seen in the stats of a Web site like this: as you can spot analyzing the graphs and values presented in the images I’m including here, there’s people coming from really ANY part of the world, and this trend is growing as the site projects its contents on the major search engines.
A large part of the searches are for questions about where to buy the Eee PC or its accessories, but the spreading of this machine among active users is arising also questions about backing up and restoring the Eee PC internal disk, about upgrading the Eee PC RAM memory, or (more often) about Eee PC 701 or 900 reviews especially now that its arrival on the shelves is near.
In the USA, where the price range is between 349$-399$, offers for the Asus Eee PC abund both in the street shops and on the Web, the latter from ecommerce sites like CompUSA, NewEgg or TigerDirect, but they can be in the form of a presale buy and you need to wait from a few days to a couple of weeks to get what you’ve already paid for. Eee PC eBay ‘Buy Now’ sales are in the same 349$-399$ range, with upgraded models sold at 599$. Of course Amazon is riding the wave of this success, and stands in the frontline with its offers.
In Europe, the situation is more or less similar, and the average European price tag of 299 Euros makes the Eee PC a very desirable hitech gadget in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and many other countries of the Old Continent. In the UK the price tag is still arount 239,99£, as see in the British Amazon Eee PC offers.
The overall impression is that we’ll see more and more offers for the Eee PC 701 4G even when the new Eee PC 900 arrives, maybe combined with gadgets, accessories or upgrades to keep the price from falling too much. Who’s going to bet on this scenario?

As the new Asus EEE PC 900 reaches the shops and Web shelves, we’ll be seeing the inevitable side effect of second hand and refurbished 4G models appearing here and there. Brad Linder of Liliputing blog has spotted some of these Eee PC bargains on Amazon.com, and it comes as a welcome trend after the rampaging Eee PC auctions seen on eBay, for example.
There’s another factor to take into account, though, and it’s the arrival of 4G Eee PCs with Windows XP as default OS, which are going to cost just a little bit more than today’s Linux versions of the same model. Linux Loop wonders if this new breed of XP-based 4G subnotebooks will mean a price drop for the Linux cousins, or maybe Asus itself will be able to keep the price down thanks to Microsoft’s help. In this latter case, it may appear as an unfair market move and we’ll see a little but meaningful price rise of the XP model in Europe to avoid UE’s acting against a new faux pas by Microsoft.
UPDATE: If it’s not a misprint, it seems you can purchase an EEEPC 4G on CompUSA or TigerDirect now for as little as 349,99$ (check for yourself)