ASUS Lifts the Curtain on its Eee Pad Tablet
ASUS Lifts the Curtain on its Eee Pad Tablet
Posted 05/31/2010 at 7:05am
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Rumors of an ASUS tablet first surfaced during December last year and the Taiwan-based company wasted little time in confirming them. But the internal organs of the Eee Pad still remained a subject of speculation. Today, ASUS put all that speculation to rest when it unveiled the Eee Pad at Computex 2010.
Two variants of the Eee Pad have been announced: the 12-inch Eee Pad EP121 and the 10-inch Eee Pad EP101TC. Powered by Wintel, the EP121 boasts the Intel Core 2 Duo CULV processor and runs Windows 7 Home Premium. It is claimed to have a 10-hour battery life.
“The ASUS Eee Pad EP121 offers two convenient modes of character input-an embedded virtual keyboard or an innovative hybrid keyboard/docking station design. All of this power is available in a personal computing device that delivers up to 10 hours of usage,” the company announced in a press release.
As for the 10-inch EP101TC, ASUS has opted for Windows Embedded Compact 7 and the Nvidia Tegra 2 platform. Not a lot is known about the EP101TC at this point in time. According to Engadget, ASUS expects the Eee Pad tablets to fit into the $399 to $499 price band. The company also told the popular tech blog that it will only begin shipping the tablet during the first quarter of 2011.
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aviaggio
May 31, 2010 at 4:27pm
It has some multitouch features in it, but it's much better for systems with either a keyboard (like a convertible tablet) or pen-based systems.
It's speculated this is why HP dropped the Windows 7 based Slate and instead are working on a WebOS tablet. Windows on a touchscreen tablet without a keyboard, mouse/touchpad, or stylus is very very clunky.
aluCard1462
May 31, 2010 at 12:34pm
Will the 12 inch have the Tegra 2 as well? Oh, and will it run Crysis?
somethingelse
May 31, 2010 at 8:19am
Wow, finally a tablet that has a real OS instead of a cell phone OS! Go Asus!!
what signature, where do i sign?
GJEMaximumPC
May 31, 2010 at 4:31pm
I like Windows 7 OS, but its a good thing ASUS is putting a duo-core CPU on this tablet to handle W7 OS because W7 on a little Atom chip isn't worth the price.
If ASUS and other companies can pull off a functional and smooth Windows 7 OS tablet, I say good. Best for everyone. But I'm still leaning and looking at the Google Android OS tablets for now.
aviaggio
May 31, 2010 at 2:10pm
While I like the idea of a full OS I'm very interested in seeing if they implement a customized version of the Windows 7 GUI. Cause the standard GUI is really hard to use with a touchscreen.
aviaggio
May 31, 2010 at 2:02pm
The term has been around since the 80s. But it doesn't get much use anymore.
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