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Asus set to launch new thin notebooks with Intel 45nm CPUs
By Shane McGlaun on Monday, Aug 31st 2009 No CommentsAsus Eee roadmap leaked
By Shane McGlaun on Monday, Aug 31st 2009 1 CommentAsus 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.
SlashGear Week in Review – Week 35 2009
By Shane McGlaun on Sunday, Aug 30th 2009 1 CommentAnother week has come and gone leaving us with memories and a hoard of cool stories to throw your way for weekend reading in case you missed them over the week. An Asus 900HA netbook was hacked into a touchscreen slate on Monday and we really liked it. DIY gear is so cool, especially when it turns out this good. Monday also brought some details on the Blackberry Storm 2 piezo touchscreen tech. We really hope its better than the original Storm.
ASUS Eee ebook reader could launch in 2009 says CEO
By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 27th 2009 No CommentsIt’s been a while since we’ve heard anything of ASUS’ ebook reader intentions, but according to DigiTimes the company’s CEO, Jerry Shen, has confirmed that they plan to have a device on the market by the end of 2009 at the earliest. Slotting into the company’s Eee brand of low-priced consumer electronic devices, Shen failed to give suggestions of specifications or pricing for the upcoming reader.
Asus ROG Mars video card hits America
By Shane McGlaun on Wednesday, Aug 26th 2009 No CommentsVideo cards with multiple GPUs used to be common from NVIDIA. The company has got away from cramming more than one GPU onto a single video card with its latest products and the ones it did make had a reputation for driver issues when users tried to run more than one of the cards.
Asus RT-N13U router shares printers and more
By Shane McGlaun on Wednesday, Aug 26th 2009 No CommentsIf you need to share storage, scanners, or printers across your wireless network at home or in the office, you have a few options for doing so. You can use a plain router along with a wireless print server, but that makes for extra clutter.
Android 2.0 Donut gets Eee PC netbook install hack [Video]
By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Aug 26th 2009 No CommentsThe plans of many official Android-based netbooks and Smartbooks may be on hold as companies tentatively measure the market, but if you’re desperate for a blast of Google’s open-source OS on your budget ultraportable then there are certainly ways to do it yourself. The latest tutorial we’ve spotted comes courtesy of UMPC Fever, who have put the latest build of Android OS 2.0 Donut onto their Eee PC.
Video demos after the cut
ASUS freeze Smartbook development over lack of “clear market”
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 25th 2009 No CommentsASUS may have leant their weight to the Smartbook movement back at Computex, bringing along a couple of slender Eee PCs based on the 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, but that doesn’t mean they’ve current plans to bring them to market. Indeed, according to ASUS CEO Jerry Shen this week, the lack of a “clear market” for Smartbooks has seen the project put on ice.
ASUS Eee Top ET2002T and ET2203T Ion all-in-ones confirmed for US
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 25th 2009 No CommentsThe ASUS Eee Top ET2002T all-in-one – which slots NVIDIA’s Ion GPU into the nettop – has made its official appearance on the company’s US site, together with getting an official announcement along with its 22-inch ET2203T sibling.. First spotted on a French retailer’s site last week, the ET2002T packs Intel’s dual-core Atom 330 processor together with a 20-inch 16:9 aspect touchscreen display and DVD burner.
ASUS Eee Box Gets Specifications List
By Evan Selleck on Monday, Aug 24th 2009 No CommentsIt was only a couple days ago that we outed the upcoming releases from ASUS, which included the Eee Box, where we informed you that the upcoming tech would come stock with a NVIDIA ION GPU. And now, according to an official Eee PC website, that seems to be the exact case. There are some other things that match up really well with that original post, so keep reading to see what this little box has in store for you.
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