They weren’t joking when ASUS said they had some tablets in store for us this year. The Eee Pad runs Windows 7 and comes in two sizes: 10 and 12 inches.
While full specs haven’t yet been announced, we do know there’s a webcam “for video conferencing capabilities”, and it recognises handwriting (along with a virtual keyboard just in case your handwriting isn’t quite up to scratch). It comes with a “docking station-cum keyboard” to turn it into a faux-desktop.
Powered by Intel’s Core 2 Duo CULV chips, there’s supposedly enough battery power in each of the two Eee Pads for 10 hours of use. The 10-inch EP101TC weighs 675g and is just 12.2mm thick, whereas ASUS hasn’t yet revealed the BMI of the chubbier EP121. [TechInStyle]
clint
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 10:11 AMso, it is very thin and light, can run windows 7 and has a battery that lasts for 10 hours of use. Was there some huge technology leap in cpus and batteries that will make me believe this. Currently they cant seem to make much bigger/heavier netbooks last 10 hours, and have the speed to run windows 7 usefully. I predict there is not 10 hours of battery in it and windows 7 will run so slowly that it is nigh on useless.
boc
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 11:54 PMNothing “magical” here. It’s running Windows CE 7 and not Windows 7. Big difference that the article omits.
clint
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 10:59 AMahh, then the above screen shot is very wrong. Win CE looks nothing like that.
http://www.youtube.com/user/minipcpro#p/u/21/Yxkb-mnwBxs
I wouldnt really say better than a ipad, but different. Looks like I will be waiting a while till there is something actually what we want.
Hal
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 2:14 PMThere is an article on this over at smh.com.au (http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/new-tablets-snatch-the-spotlight-from-apple-ipad-20100531-wrjq.html) today. Part of their article indirectly points bones at Apple and their lack of Flash support for iphones/ipads/ipods. I think they should be reading this http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ before they go bragging about how good Flash really is, and making it a selling point.
Andrew Lang
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 4:04 PMAnd after they’ve read all that disinformation about Flash, they can view this video about how well HTML5 based stuff runs on the iPad/iPhone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfmbZkqORX4
then how the performance between the technologies in almost nil here:
http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2010/03/22/
just because Steve Jobs says something is so, doesn’t make it so.
Nat
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 7:23 PMI’ll take one of these over an iPad any day.
With Windows 7, it will allow me to do my work the way I want to, not the way Steve Jobs wants to force me to.
adam
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 11:06 PMI want the specs… I wonder if it can be hackintoshed, full osx on a tablet is an ipad killer. Screw windows 7.
Xheis
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 8:23 AMThats like getting a brand new tank made of gold and painting it sh*t white. Linus would make it glow a little, but the normal soliders on the ground wouldn’t know how to even start it.
Vyas Chady
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM2 Cores running Win 7 CE would be freaking fast. I am not getting an Ipad, but I am getting one of these, can’t wait. I just hope they will take use of the Intel Apps store and help it get better.
RBKB
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 8:52 AMif perhaps the Apple fandrones will calm down for a sec … this “e-pad” is a slightly better equivalent to the HANVON BC10 which has been out for several months now … I use one everyday for work, home, play …
full Win7. therefore full use of EVERYTHING. and YES ppl have put OSX on them! the Win7 tablet UI is just fine, tho not as sexy as the iFruit-toy. It has some design flaws (being a rush job) but it just WORKS .. and runs every app I need (not hi-end games of course!).
chief drawbacks: boot-time from cold (always an issue with a real computer vs a glorified PDA)& battery-life … but I’ll take that tradeoff for a REAL computer (rather than just a big ‘toy’) any day! and who knows, Asus may have kicked the battery-life issue better than HANVON did (maybe a solid state drive rather than my 300GB platter) etc.
if I could justify the money, I’d take the Win7 ep over its smaller brother, but for now theres insufficient reason to ditch my little HANVON.
so can we stick to the facts people ?
… those Apple fanz tend to run monomanic & internally inconsistent scare campaigns that would slot straight in to the extreme right-side of Australian (or US) politics (grin)