ASUS Eee PC S101 Review (LAPTOP Mag)

Yesterday, LAPTOP Magazine published their form review of the high-end 10.2″ Asus Eee PC S101 netbook. High-end as in $699, ultrathin (for a netbook), with a better looking display, a larger touchpad, and multi-touch (an ElanTech touchpad). Speaking of the touchpad, it’s quite a bit … Read more

Asus Eee PC S101 Hands-On

A couple of hands-on articles about the upcoming 10.2″ Asus Eee PC S101 have been posted on Engadget, Gizmodo, and LAPTOP Magazine (who also posted a fairly in-depth video hands-on). They were able to take a look what appears to be a production S101 at … Read more

Interview with ASUS CEO, Eee PC Plans

Yesterday, an interview between LAPTOP Magazine’s Joanna Stern and Asustek’s CEO Jerry Shen was published, that shed a lot of light on where Asustek sees things now and where they see things going, as well as the plans they have for the Asus Eee PC … Read more

HP Working on Touch-Oriented Devices, 10″ Netbook

HP Logo The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Hewlett-Packard is working on touch-oriented devices, and will even roll out a touchscreen consumer-oriented notebook later this year.

Keep in mind that while Tablet PCs might have touchscreens, not all touchscreens are used in a Tablet PC form factor (or even the “convertible” form factor). This will look like a normal laptop and will not be a convertible like the HP Pavilion tx2500z.

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Asus Eee PC – 1 Year Anniversary

Today is the one year anniversary / birthday of the 7″ Asus Eee PC which kicked off the whole netbook craze. Last year in Taiwan, the Asus Eee PC 701 went on sale and everything changed in the ultraportable market. Previously we were used to … Read more