Asus Announces Convertible Netbook Tablet
The new Asus T101MT netbook tablet was spotted in an FCC filing back in December, but it’s now been made official. The systems comes with the familiar netbook internals including a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor, a 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen (with touchscreen capabilities), and 1-2GB of RAM depending on which version of Windows 7 the customer opts for. Consumers will also have a choice between a 160GB hard drive, or a 320GB hard drive with 500GB of Asus cloud storage free for a year.
Of course, the real trick here is the rotating screen that swivels around to put the computer into tablet mode. The system is not obscenely heavy at 2.9 lbs, and will offer a reported 6.5 hours of battery life. As an extra added bonus the SD card slot will be able to read the new SDXC cards up to 32GB in size. No specifics on price or availability were announced, but we’ll keep an eye out. Does this sort of form factor interest you at all?

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mdkplus
February 17, 2010 at 1:16pm
First it was a portable computer, then Laptop. Then Notebook. Then Tablet PC. Then Netbook. So what do we call this one? Nettab? Tablenet? Apad? I'll bet, based on the configs, this thing outsells the Ipad. Does it come with wings?
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Tekzel
February 16, 2010 at 1:12pm
This formfactor does absolutely interest me. I love my Acer AspireOne, and end up taking it with my 95% of the time instead of my full size notebook with a 17in screen. It does almost everything I need to do while mobile and have often thought the only thing I REALLY miss with it is what my old HP Tablet that died on me had: A reversible LCD and touchscreen for reading docs and such.
This thing looks like it is close to the perfect netbook. Lets see what the price says.
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X2brute
February 16, 2010 at 3:47am
I personally would LOVE a laptop that could fold flat w/ the screen still out, itd be great for movies. You could use the keyboard as a kickstand! And if they had touch or a way of scrolling w/o the keyboard I could see using it for reading, and even allot of casual games just need mouse input, if its $500 or less I could see it doing well, allot of other tablets are just too expensive when you can often get a dual cored toshiba for $375
If a bear tries to dump in the woods but a tree falls on him with no one around, is the pope's hat still funny?
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M-ManLA
February 16, 2010 at 12:11am
If they have it under the $500 price mark, then Asus will really have my attention. Let me read my mags and news papers from it too!
Electronically charged
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violian
February 15, 2010 at 11:28pm
Would only buy if it has capacitive multitouch. Cuz otherwise, I'd rather just buy the iPad. If I really need the PC function, then I can always go to my main PC. I can't imagine going back to resistive multitouch. The last device I had that had a resistive multitouch was the Samsung Instinct...and it was a really bad experience.
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magnumsrule
February 15, 2010 at 9:01pm
I also own one of the HP tablets. If this can get the expected battery life and weigh that much less I would prob run out and buy one... if i could sell my hp that is.
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NAYRhyno
February 15, 2010 at 7:19pm
For $500 I would consider buying on day 1. If they make a UL30Vt-A1 in a convertable form factor for ~$1000, then I would be really excited.
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hades_2100
February 15, 2010 at 6:44pm
Just bought HP's TM2 convertible tablet. So yes, this form factor interests me. If this is cheap enough, might buy one for my wife.
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owej
February 15, 2010 at 6:39pm
I would strongly consider buying this if the screen folds to cover the keyboard and priced low.
What I am really waiting for is a tablet with Windows 7 Home Premium, duel core processor, about the size of this one, and without a keyboard.
I will be willing to pay high. 64 bit OS, 4G RAM would be nice. HD or SSD or storage size doesn't matter to me. Linux in place of Windows is OK.














