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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