Looking mighty familiar, but with a heritage that escapes our memory right now, Malata’s latest netbook is one of the increasingly popular convertible touchscreen models. The Malata R108T packs a rotating 10-inch 1024 x 600 touchscreen – which we’re presuming is resistive – together with the usual dreary roster of 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, 1GB of memory and 160GB hard-drive, but makes up for that by apparently being priced at around $435.
ASUS’ Eee PC T91MT multitouch-capable convertible touchscreen netbook may only just be available in the US, but that hasn’t stopped MyT91’s Kubel from scripting up a full review of the finger-friendly device. According to his report, the T91MT not only has a great keyboard but a reasonably effective touchscreen; it can only recognize two points of contact and has neither palm-rejection nor pressure-sensitivity, but it still manages to offer more touch-control than previous versions of the T91.
We have already talked a bit about the new Asus Eee PC T91 multi touch netbook. Certainly, the coolest feature of the netbook is the multi-touch capability and the custom Asus UI that sits on top of Windows 7 to allow navigation of content on the machine.
Having gone up for preorder in Europe midway through October, the upcoming multitouch-capable ASUS Eee PC T91MT has now shown up for preorder in the US. Amazon are listing the convertible touchscreen netbook – the T91MT-PU17-WT, to give it its full, catchy title – for $549, though they don’t have any specific release date.
Launch details for ASUS’ long-promised Eee PC T91 with multitouch have been revealed, courtesy of Amazon’s preorder listings for the convertible touchscreen netbook. First demonstrated back in June at Computex, and officially confirmed by ASUS shortly after, the T91 Multitouch will officially go on sale come October 22nd, unsurprisingly running Windows 7.
The wire has been pretty barren when it comes to word of ASUS’ upcoming 10.2-inch convertible touchscreen netbook, the Eee PC T101H. Last we heard, ASUS had pushed its release back until September “at the earliest” and were watching sales performance of the T91 before finally green-lighting the project; now, according to NetbookNews’ sources, the T101H will make its official debut at CES 2010, complete with Intel’s next-gen Atom N450 1.66GHz processor.
Asus was the father of the booming netbook market when it tossed its first 7-inch netbook onto the market in late 2007. Since that time the netbook has gone on to become one of the best selling categories in the entire computer market.
MSI have confirmed previous leaks that they are developing a convertible touchscreen netbook that will run Windows 7 on Intel’s upcoming Pine Trail chipset. The MSI Wind U150 will take on ASUS’ Eee PC T91; however there’s some confusion as to when it might arrive. MSI have tipped Pine Trail’s official debut as taking place at CES 2010, while Intel maintain that the new Atom processors are on course for a late-2009 release.
Kohjinsha’s SK3 UMPC landed quietly in Japan back in June, and since then we’ve heard little about the 7-inch touchscreen convertible. Happily the team over at Conics have been able to source at least one SK3, and they’ve shared the video unboxing with us. Let’s just say, unless they have particularly large hands at Conics, the little Kohjinsha really is tiny.
Video after the cut
The great thing about only spotting a new device when it launches is that you don’t have to wait too long until you can see if unboxed and in action. Gigabyte’s TouchNote T1028X convertible touchscreen netbook only crossed our paths yesterday, but already Liliputing have their review unit in to play with.
Video unboxing after the cut
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