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ASUS’ upcoming S101 netbook – which company CEO Jerry Shen insists is not an Eee – was expected to launch in September. Instead all we have is this recently discovered photo, which seems to picture the Atom-based ultraportable in its identity-confused phase as it still has the Eee logo on the lid.
The S101 is expected to have Intel’s 1.6GHz Atom processor, either a 32GB or 64GB SSD, and a 10-inch display. Its casing is glossy metallic brown, with chrome detailing. No pricing or new availability details have been given.
Of course, the delay in launching could be ASUS taking the opportunity to slot Intel’s newly-shipping Atom 330 dual-core CPU into the netbook, rather than the single-core processor. That might answer critics who have suggested that ASUS’ other premium netbook, the N10, is technologically impressive but not quite enough to warrant the price-tag (nor significantly threaten entry-level ‘normal’ notebooks).
2 Responses to “ASUS S101 luxury netbook shows up again; still no word on launch”
Name October 7, 2008
Since the photo and the news come from Fudzilla.com, the least you could do is SPELL out FUDZILLA.com and give Fudo some credit here…
NeutralChris Davies October 7, 2008
Hi ‘Name’. There’s a link to Fudzilla in the first paragraph of the text, and as you say their photo is clearly watermarked; this is really no different to having a nameless “Read” or “Source” link at the bottom of an article.
I’m sorry you don’t think it’s enough, but it’s what we try to do consistently across our articles. We always attribute sources.
Neutral