So the Nokia Booklet 3G may not be the most powerful netbook around, but if you believe the rumours the ASUS Eee PC 1201N could knock it out in performance.
Fancy a Wii or Nintendo DS Lite for half price? How about an Eee PC for $199? Then you should probably spend your lunch break today glued to Catch Of The Day.
If you really, really, really want an 8.9-inch netbook tablet running XP Home and don’t care that the guys in the US were somewhat unimpressed by the device, Asus has announced that they’ll be selling their T91 Eee PC in Australia from August for $999.
Ahh, that’s more like it. Early reports of British pricing had us worried that the ASUS T91 convertible tablet would sell for nearly $US700; now, online retailers are listing the 8.9-inch touchscreen Eee at a much more reasonable $US500.
There’s no question, the Eee changed everything. But can Asus offer products that are on par with Apple design? According to Asustek vice chairman Jonathan Tsang, that’s the aspiration.
One of the early surprises of Computex was this delightful little Android netbook from ASUS, based on the ultra-efficient Snapdragon platform. Acer has since responded with a full-throated commitment to Android netbooks, but now ASUS is backing off.
If their Android netbook demo hadn’t convinced you that ASUS was serious about crossbreeding Google’s Android OS with their Eee line, this will: ASUS has become the first company to announce intentions to manufacture an Android netbook, coming by Q3 of this year.
Since the original, 7-inch Eee, netbooks have just gotten bigger. First 9, then 10, and now even 12 inches in size, most of these ultraportables are now just…quasi portable. Luckily, the Eee 1008HA Seashell reminds us what made netbooks so enticing in the first place: Size.
