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ASUS have been flaunting their now-official Eee Box B202 around Computex 2008 in Taipei, with spaces on the débutante’s dance-card filling up fast.  As with the Eee notebooks, both Windows XP and Linux versions of the desktop will be available, each packing a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 802.11n and DVI output.  Best of all are the [...]

The news that ASUS is considering a touchscreen version of the Eee PC seemed like a pretty natural progression, but if you’re unwilling to wait until the official EeeTablet then this DIY kit seems the cheapest way so far to add touch functionality to the 7-inch notebook.  Consisting of the touch panel itself, together with a controller [...]

Having recently scaled back its plans to integrate WiMAX into every Eee PC 901, instead making the high-speed mobile broadband technology “an option”, ASUS are demonstrating a version of the budget ultraportable at WiMAX Expo Taipei.  Engadget China stopped by the booth and took these photos; they’re saying the demo models use Intel’s Link 5150 WiMAX/WiFi-N chip.  However, according [...]

Crave UK has been spending some hands-on time with one of the key upcoming rivals to ASUS’ Eee PC, the MSI Wind, and come away singing its praises.  They’ve also highlighted some neat hardware features, such as an overclock button that, when on mains power, automatically ratchets the CPU up by 20-percent.  On battery, the [...]

ASUS plan to officially launch their largest Eee PC yet, the 1000-series with a 10-inch display, at Computex 2008 in Taipei, Taiwan. Believed to have the same specs as the Eee PC 901, the larger model was developed after customer feedback asked for bigger keyboards and screens. The company confirmed the 1000-series name [...]

After a few weeks of budget, mobile laptops grabbing the headlines, its been the turn of monstrous gaming machines to storm the limelight.  Acer announced their first serious gamer’s desktop, the Aspire Predator, which is intended to take the breed out of the boutique and into mainstream computer stores.  Alienware struck back with an updated [...]

ASUS’s Australian division has confirmed that the company is working on a touchscreen slate-style version of the Eee.  Asked whether a non-clamshell, touchscreen-based Eee was a possibility,  ASUS Australia national retail manager, Emmanuele Silanesu, confirmed that the budget ultraportable team was “obviously looking at other form factors rather than just a clamshell” and that one [...]

It is still too early in the game for lower-end devices such as the Eee PC 901 to feature WiMAX technology. Asustek CEO did planned on integrating WiMAX technology into its next generation Eee PCs, but recently decided to make WiMAX available only as an option. The decision was based on two quarters [...]

ASUS continued their assault on the budget computing market this week, with the Eee PC 900 finally launching in the US while its Intel Atom powered sibling the PC 901 broke cover.  We also saw a live photo of the Eee Box B202, a desktop version.  It looks as though the rumors of a separate [...]

Photos of ASUS’ upcoming Eee PC 901 - the Intel Atom powered version of the 8.9-inch budget ultraportable - have appeared online, together with a run down of the differences Asustek have made to the case design and ports layout. It seems that the company wasn’t content to merely wait until Intel could catch [...]