Asus cracks out of its shell with Air-esque Eee PC Asus stuck with its beside-the-seaside theme this week when it unveiled its latest 10in Eee PC netbook, the 1008HA, at Cebit. Asus Eee 1008HA Asus' Eee 1008HA: inspired by MacBook Air? The 1in-thick device weighs in at 1.1kg and has a 92 per cent scaled keyboad. Asus chairman Jonney Shih said the device took its …
I hope El Reg is pestering them for a review copy of the new Netbook.
And I would like to offer my services in reviewing the model; just send her to my place and expect her back in a few months (if ever).
Paris, I would love to strip her down and see what makes her tick !!!
I heard that the Soviet bloc is getting in on the Eee act as well - a Yorkshire entrepreneur signed a deal this week which will see the little computers being manufactured under license by the Russian state department store GUM.
They'll be known as the Eee by Gum.
Right - coat, yep the greatcoat with the red star please.
That styling looks to have been take straight from the Aspire One. The white "pearlescent casing", with shiny black trim around the screen, the recessed rounded oblong power button etc There are other touches which can be attributed to the Air and maybe other products too. Designers at Asus don't have much imagination do they?
I think you need to slap your "related" products bit about.
The top three it linked to on dabs were...
# Asustek 8.9" Eee PC 1GB 20GB Linux Black - £224.04
# Asustek EEE PC 900 1GB 16G SSD Linux White - £202.78
# Asustek EEE PC 901 1GB 12G SSD XP Black - £299.98
The first two are discontinued, and the third is out of stock for 3-4 weeks and £247.50 inc vat
"A description which could equally be applied to the model the vendor had parading the device in front of journalists at Cebit. However, she doesn't include a digital array mic, SRS Premium Sound, 1.3Mp camera, or 802.11n, Bluetooth and WiMax connectivity."
Perhaps those are true, but I bet she still has her standard female-connection I/O port. Whereas, I have my standard male-connection I/O plug.
PH: she knows all about male-to-female connections.
Why is it that is someone produces a slightly this or that computer is ripping of A or B
I dont hear anyone claiming the latestes GM, Toyota etc is a blatant rip of a car that Henry Ford or Mr Daimler once produced?
innvoation died out when "personal computing" when from niche/boutique manufacturers to the day when IBM crashed the party and made everything corporate and beige!
and, no one ever seems to day Paris Hilton, she is just like some other **** from the the 50s?
>But does it have an ethernet port? USB x ? Firewire ? is there a dvdwriter in the box ? is the battery swappable ?
Firewire is well dead matey, but yes on swappable battery, it has 2x USB & a 10/100 eth.
Other missing details of interest.....
Screen is a 10" 1024 X 600, it has a multi-touch trackpad, VGA port & SD reader - CPU is a 1.6odd Atom.
......and like most of the more recent Asus EEE PC line, it is actually manufactured by Quanta - the same folk who make the MacBook Air.
Asus had announced that they had release too many models already that looked similar to each other and were trying to standardize on some components [the popular 1000He uses the same casing as some older models now].
Someone asked about features. I don't think any netbooks have an optical drive. The typical Asus netbook system has 1GB of memory [up to 2GB - limitation of the processor], probably has the N280, probably 3 USB ports, mic and headphone jacks, touchpad, VGA port and the typical 1024*600 resolution.
If it's like the 1000HE, it has a typical battery life of 7 hours - tweakable to 9.5 hours. Probably initially Win XP with a possible Linux model.
Now can someone fix the typos?
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