In July, Asus appeared to drop Windows in favor of Android for its upcoming Eee Pads.
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I'd rather not have something large, even as large as a netbook like the Eee PC.
For its innovation and disruption, the Asustek Eee PC is FORBES ASIA's Product of the Year.
The Eee PC 900, introduced this month, comes with Windows XP and a larger, 8.9-inch display.
Asus also makes more than 20 kinds of Eee PC netbooks, in sizes ranging from 7 inches to 10 inches.
By the end of the year it expects to have sold 5 million Eee PCs since its launch.
Regardless of performance, we think the Eee Pad is horribly named. iPad is still a terrible name.
The company calls the tablets Eee Pad to link them to its popular line of Eee PC netbooks.
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Operators have already begun inquiring about carrying the 3G Eee Pads, he adds.
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Asus introduced the Eee Pad just before the start of Computex, a major computing conference kicking off in Taipai.
The Classmate also comes with Windows pre-installed and about twice the Eee's memory.
At the low end, cheap gear such as the Eee PC offer a small form factor at a nice price.
Fan of ASUS' affordable, yet competitively specced Eee Pad Transformer, but still haven't committed your credit to its 10.1-inches?
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If you tell your friends you are buying an Eee Pad instead of an iPad, they will laugh at you.
It's only been a few weeks since ASUS went official with it's Tegra 3-packing Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet.
At 9 inches wide and weighing in at just 2 pounds, Asustek's pint-size Eee PC doesn't look like a heavyweight contender.
In the latest quarter, how quickly PC companies reacted to the rise of the Eee PC largely dictated their market performance.
But after the breakthrough of the seven-inch Eee PC, Asus is looking for another lucky seven from their alliance with Google.
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Although it weighs about a pound more, it has 10 times the storage space of the Eee's 4 gigabytes of flash memory.
But Shih confirmed that Asus will have Windows-based Eee Pads in 2011.
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Rival computer companies soon noticed that one of their main hardware suppliers was now competing against them as the Eee brand took off.
Shen, of course, is just hitting back at the iPad, the biggest threat to the netbook market his company pioneered with the Eee PC.
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While talks of a Transformer 2 are still just gossamer promise, you can always snag that Eee Pad Slider while you sit and wait.
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At the time, Asus was a relative unknown in the U.S. cellphone market though its PCs, particularly its Eee PC netbooks, were popular among Americans, explains Lin.
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Though ASUS is careful to say it's considering other devices, it's still not promising to upgrade the original Eee Pad Transformer or Eee Pad Slider.
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Most current models, including Samsung's NC10, much of the Asus Eee range, the MSI Wind and the Acer Aspire One, use Intel's Atom as their central processor.
Asus first showed the Eee PC at Computex in 2007.
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So, if you want to ensure you're the first kid on the block with a quad-core slate, find your credit card, get Eee-xcited and hit the source link below.
Since January, Asus has announced multiple tablets, including the 10.1-inch Eee Pad Transformer and an unusual smartphone-tablet hybrid called Padfone, though it has not commercially launched all the devices yet.
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