Articles tagged with: eee pc

Time to snap up an Eee PC 700, 701, 702, 900, 900A, 901 (pictured), 904HD and any other 7in or 8.9in Eee PC variants you can lay your hands on. Asus chief, Jerry Shen, has said the company plans to phase out its smaller models leaving the 10in 1000-series as the only Eee PCs in town.

Well, we’re not quite sure what we’re reporting on here. But we just received an invite to the launch of a product named as the "Bamboo Notebook and Touch-screen Eee Top PC". The launch is pencilled in for the Stuff Live show, here in the UK on 31st October.

Want more information? So did we, so we called Asus' press folks. We got a vague response that the new machine isn’t in fact a notebook. To be honest, we knew that before calling – the Eee Top product line, which itself surfaced only recently, is better described as a nettop. Or an ultra-mobile PC (UMPC), if you really must. Either way, this latest one apparently really is made of bamboo. But the PR wouldn’t supply a picture, so we’ve made our own (if Asus wants to supply an actual pic, we'll happily pop it up). More after the cut.

Aargh - they're everywhere, those netbooks. But the netbook that inspired them all, the Eee PC, is soon to hit the five million mark - the very target set by Asus boss, Jerry Shen, at its launch in October last year.

Yes, it's hard to believe that the netbook phenomenon - a sudden desire to chop screen sizes and a fight to the bottom for hardware specs - began just twelve short months ago with the launch of the Eee PC 701. Shen spoke to Laptop Magazine on the auspicious occasion of its first anniversary and explained that, "At the end of that year, I set a goal to sell five million by the end of 2008."

The headline pretty much sums up this story, straight from the rumour mill: DigiTimes reports Asus’ Eee PC business manager, Samson Hu, as confirming that the company intends to launch netbooks with touch-sensitive screens under the Eee PC brand early in 2009.

According to DigiTimes, Asus has yet to decide which Eee PC models will be given the touch treatment. However, it will apparently launch the products at the 2009 Consumer Electronic Show (CES). This takes place in Las Vegas from 8-11 January.

But that’s not all. Find out more from Hu and his Asus chums after the cut.

The ever plumbed-in Digitimes, has reported on plans by Asus to launch a touch-panel Eee PC early next year.

The netbook line-up already has some 'multi-touch' abilities via its touch pad, with pinch to zoom and the like, but the new models could take this further with full touch screens.

Other prospects on the horizon include a commitment to build dual-core Eee PCs just as soon as Intel launches its dual-core Atom chip and a plan to release a budget model priced around $300 some time next year.

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The folks over at Super Talent have come up with an easy route to upgrade you Asus Eee PC. Its Eee-tested SSDs are designed to replace the built-in SSD storage attached to the Eee's miniPCI-Express slot.

They come in sizes from 8GB to 64Gb with reasonable-ish read rates of 40MB/sec and write rates of between 15 and 28MB/sec. Read on for which models you can use them with.

Leaked photos have already hinted at the existence of a high-end Eee PC from Asus, but little else has so far been revealed about this sleek new netbook – until today, that is. Asus has now officially announced the Eee PC S101 and Mobile Computer is lucky enough to have scooped the worldwide exclusive review.

“High-end netbook” might sound like an oxymoron, not least because the whole point of these little mobile internet devices is 'low-cost, low-power'. The thinking at Asus, however, is that the S101 will appeal to people who have so far been put off buying an Eee PC because of its ‘built to a budget’ appearance, and in that respect, the S101 is a big success – it’s gorgeous.

We’ve seen a few leaked photos of the new Asus Eee PC S101, read a few snippets about specifications and even a seen a brief hands-on report from The Guardian’s Jack Schofield (and not to mention published a marvellous review). That’s enough of the speculation, though – here’s the real deal. We were the first publication to spend some time with Asus’ new “high-end” Eee PC and just before long after (thanks blip.tv!) we publish our exclusive review, we thought we’d give you a little teaser follow-up in the shape of our hands-on video – after the cut.

Car-stereos-to-dishwashers manufacturer LG Electronics is to launch an Atom-powered netbook in the UK.

Keen to mop up some of the spills caused by the giant splash made by the likes of Asus's Eee PC and the MSI Wind, LG has come up with the X110. It is in many ways a classic netbook but one of its big selling points is built in HSDPA (3G) connectivity.

According to Reg Hardware, the X110 is set to launch here in October at a price of £320 (€399/$589). More after the cut.

Not content with churning out endless numbers of Eee PC variants, Asus has now come up with a second UMPC brand - the Asus N-Series.

Freshly leaked images show the 10.2in model, the N10, looking very much like a madeover Eee, and also sporting Altec Lansing speakers and an HDMI port, suggesting a multimedia-friendly hardware boost. More details and pictures after the jump.