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Asus’ Eee Tablet sounds incredible at first – from the company that invented the netbook, a tablet with a specially designed LCD that rivals the convenience of e-ink tech without the lag. But are you still impressed after this clip?
Normally we’d be running to the hills in fright of clocking a stylus within 15m of a tablet, but in ASUS’ case they’re claiming that “the humble notepad is in line for a digital makeover”.
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.
You’d expect a portable keyboard with a 5-inch LCD thrown in to have a better battery life than the average low-end netbook, but ASUS has revealed the full, final specs of the EeeKeyboard, which will sell for $US599.
EeePad is go, according to ASUS’ Chairman Jerry Shen, who will be showing it off this June at Computex as planned. However, a launch date has also been mentioned by the Taiwanese – an early-sounding late July.
Forbes is reporting in an interview with ASUS’ Chairman Jonney Shih that they’re preparing their “own iPad rivals”, two models which will launch “in the coming months” and run on Google Chrome (or Android) and Windows.
ASUS’ Eee PC T101MT has finally been given a release date – April for Europe and most probably the US as well. The convertible tablet netbook will be €499 (or $US660) once on sale. [Liliputting]