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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The company calls the tablets Eee Pad to link them to its popular line of Eee PC netbooks.

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In the latest quarter, how quickly PC companies reacted to the rise of the Eee PC largely dictated their market performance.

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