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Just Don’t Brag that You Drive a Lamborghini… While most of us will not get to own an Italian sports car, Ferrari partnered with Acer, and Lamborghini with Asus to bring us netbooks that have all the roar and excitement of some of the world’s supercars. Well, actually they pretty much prove that beauty can be [...]
Continue reading...ASUS Eee Slate EP121-1A011M 12.1-Inch Tablet PC
The Asus Eee Slate EP121 is for sale on Amazon. I’ll cut right to the chase, on the one hand it is the most powerful tablet PC and I can think of all kinds of uses for one, but at the same time, it is way overpriced. The device is nice and slim, and has a [...]
Continue reading...Asus Eee PC Sirocco 1015PW
19. January 2011 | by Jonas
Asus seems to have gotten hopes up with their promise to “make waves” with their Eee PC Sirocco 1015PW. But after a once over, this thing has no relation to the VW by a quite similar name, nor did it make any waves. The specs are pretty pedestrian netbook for 2011: Intel Atom N550 processor, 250 [...]
Continue reading...Asus Eee Pad Transformer
10. January 2011 | by Jonas
Asus was showing off their Eee Pad Transformer at CES 2011. It is another example of an Android 3.0 tablet device, that uses the upcoming Honeycomb OS that is designed specifically for the tablet space. Using an Android OS means that they can utilize the Nvidia Tegra 2 processor. It has a 10.2″ touchscreen. However, the [...]
Continue reading...Asus Eee Slate EP121
6. January 2011 | by Jonas
Windows on a tablet device has had more than a checkered past of false starts. However, 2011 does appear to be the year of the tablet, and Asus is giving the college try…once again. Their latest attempt is the Eee Slate EP121. Thankfully, they have foregone some underpowered Atom chip, and went with a more serious [...]
Continue reading...Asus Netvertible for CES 2011
28. December 2010 | by Jonas
CES 2011 is just around the corner, and product is starting to leak out. Taking a cue from the Dell Duo netvertible, the folks at Asus are giving us a glimpse of the latest creation. Dubbed the “EeePad,” although that is not the official name (yet), the folks at Gizmodo have an image of a tablet [...]
Continue reading...Post Holiday Refurbs
27. December 2010 | by Jonas
So much for not finding any bargains. Today there are two refurbs, both at Meritline, and both are pretty cheap. The first is the Asus 1001PXB, which is a modern netbook. It uses the Atom N450 chip, 10.1″ display, 1 GB DDR2 RAM, and a 160 GB hard drive. The OS is Windows XP. They don’t [...]
Continue reading...Thin Is In
23. December 2010 | by Jonas
Apparently, one of the secret special sauces of the current MacBook Air is the ultrathin display. Despite the high price of the current MacBook Air, and the use of last year’s processor, the oh so slim profile did certainly get everyone’s attention, and made it to plenty of folks gadget lust lists. By not incorporating [...]
Continue reading...Asus Eee PC 1215T
7. November 2010 | by Jonas
The traditional netbook sometimes falls short for some things, and the Asus 1215T takes it to the next level. The traditional 10″ display gets bumped up to 12″. The Atom gets tossed in favor of an AMD K125 chip. The RAM is increased to 2 GB, and the hard drive to 320 GB. The hobbled [...]
Continue reading...Asus Eee PC 1015T
4. November 2010 | by Jonas
Just in time for the holidays, Asus is bringing their Eee PC 1015T to market. While it was announced over the summer, it is just becoming available now. The heart of the 1015T is the AMD V105 chip. This is the underclocked version of the V125, which is detuned to 1.2 GHz, which should use less [...]
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