Asus to launch bamboo laptop and Eee Top touch-screen PC at Stuff Live show
By Julian Prokaza on Wednesday, 22 October 2008
It looks like Leon Bailey got in a bit of a muddle with his earlier story about Asus' plans for the Eee Top 1602 and bamboo notebook.
As stated, both products are being launched at the Stuff Live show at the end of October, but Leon's speculative abilities got a little out of hand, so here's a correction.
We're assuming that the 'bamboo notebook' will be the production version of the Asus U6
we looked at a few months ago, which is essentially a standard Centrino
laptop with a case made partly (not wholly, as Asus originally planned)
from bamboo. Asus already offers laptops with a similar leather finish , so this one will perhaps appeal to users who don't like to carry a piece of cow on the daily commute.
Judging by the information at Play.com, the Asus Eee Top ETP1602-WT-X0010
is essentially a desk-bound Eee PC wrapped up in a 15in TFT monitor.
So
a tablet PC, then? Well, no, at least if the specifications listed by
Play.com are accurate – this is a 4.3kg device that runs off mains
power, which really makes it more of a low-end iMac. That's assuming
someone hacks it to run MacOS X, of course.
Eee Top Video written by Sascha , October 22, 2008
Was there anything wrong with my comment or that i published the links to the Eee Top videos? I mean it already got launched and i was wondering why you guys didn't cover it, cause it was all over the web.
Instead you are publishing a a picture of an onlineshop.
Weird.
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... written by Julian Prokaza , October 22, 2008
Hi Sascha
No, nothing wrong - I just deleted your duplicate comment and corrected the links in the original one. Thanks for the info!
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