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.
The company calls the tablets Eee Pad to link them to its popular line of Eee PC netbooks.
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At the low end, cheap gear such as the Eee PC offer a small form factor at a nice price.
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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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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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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Asus first showed the Eee PC at Computex in 2007.
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That includes the Positivo Mobo (pictured above), which appears to almost certainly be a rebadge of Airis' Kira 740 Eee PC lookalike (or a rebadge of whatever that is a rebadge of).
Nevertheless, based on this table and other mounting evidence, first and second generation Eee PC owners shouldn't feel any compulsion to rush out and upgrade to Atom on day 1.
It took Apple to realize the potential of the tablet, Asus (with its Eee PC) to blow up the netbook category, and MySpace and Facebook to create stable, mass-market social networks.
According to Hardware Zone, ASUS made this choice aiming to be the first to market with the next generation of Ion, but an Optimus version of the ASUS Eee PC 1201PN will be ready later this quarter.
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The tiny machine joins Dell's Inspiron Mini 9, the Asus Eee PC 900, the HP Mini-Note 2133 and the Intel Classmate PC among the new class of machines offering cramped keyboards, dinky screens and relatively pokey processors.
While the source is in machine-translated Japanese, that table comparing the Atom with Eee PC 900's Celeron and a typical ULV Core 2 Duo found in a wide range of full-sized, ultra-portable laptops speaks for itself.
In addition, the desktop grade, dual-core 1.8GHz Atom D525 processor inside the Eee PC 1215N also provides about double the speed and, as we said before, the 12.1-inch Eee PC certainly feels faster in everyday use to us.
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We heard the rumor now ASUS' CEO, Jerry Shen, confirms in an interview with Laptop that ASUS will slap a touchscreen and Windows 7 into a new Eee PC sometime in the second half of 2009.
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Come on, you had to know that one of our first stops at CeBIT was going to be the ASUS booth to see if we could get a glimpse at the leaked 10-inch Eee PC 1018P and 1016P.
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That's good news, seeing as the Pine Trail-based Eee PC 1005PE we just reviewed didn't offer much of a performance benefit over the older Diamondville chips and definitely couldn't bust through the first few seconds of a YouTube HD clip.
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The touch-enabled Eee PC model(s) could come in the form of a convertible tablet although Shen wouldn't specify -- he only promised more details in Q1, presumably at CES. Unsurprisingly, ASUS has no plans to put Vista onto Eee PCs at all.
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Yes, they're technically "ultraportables" (which we usually define as being any relatively small laptop and under four pounds), but to say an Eee PC is in the same class as, say, the Lenovo X300, the VAIO TZ, or the MacBook Air would be kind of misleading.
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Second, while the Asus Eee PC may have been closer to a computing appliance or companion than a PC, the deluge of netbooks from large PC companies such as HP, Acer and Dell that have followed have overwhelmingly run Windows and have been embraced by consumers as small and cheap, if underpowered, laptops.
Don't get us wrong, the 5103 still feels like a netbook, but toggling between windows and opening programs felt snappier than our Atom N450-packing Toshiba Mini NB305, though not as fast as the dual-core Atom D525-powered Eee PC 1215N or the AMD Athlon II Neo K325-powered Dell Inspiron M101z.
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While we told you earlier this week that the Ion 2-powered ASUS Eee PC 1201PN wouldn't be arriving until late May, a number of European sites have gotten early review samples of the 12-inch "netbook" -- if you choose to call it that -- and have discovered that it doesn't use NVIDIA's Optimus automatic graphics switching technology.
ENGADGET: First wave of Ion 2 ASUS Eee PC 1201PNs lack NVIDIA Optimus
It struck us the other day as we were going over some back posts that since the launch of the ASUS Eee PC (and the numerous products that have followed, from the MSI Wind to the HP Mini-Note), to the best of our knowledge we've all yet to have any normalized, agreed-upon name for these kinds of devices.
ENGADGET: Eee PC-like ultraportables - name that product category
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