Rumor: Asustek to Launch ODD-toting Netbook in April
Rumor: Asustek to Launch ODD-toting Netbook in April
Posted 03/27/2009 at 5:01pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Asustek is now busy sprucing up its Eee PC range. The wafer-thin Fold/Unfold notebook, the dual touchscreen Flipbook and voice-controlled Eee PCs are some of the most innovative products on its release calender.
An optical disk drive (ODD) may be pale in comparison to all the scintillating stuff just mentioned, but it is still a big deal for netbooks to have one.
Taiwanese website Digitimes is reporting that the ODD-equipped Eee PC E1004Dn netbook will become available in mid-April. The website also claims to have learnt from its sources that Asus will be releasing the 1080HA, which is fashioned like the MacBook Air, in the month of May.
The E1004DN was showcased at CES 2009. It happens to be the first Eee netbook equipped with an ODD. Apart from the DVD drive, it will feature a 10” display, an Intel Atom N280 processor, 1GB RAM and a 120GB HDD.
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Spartacus
March 30, 2009 at 2:01pm
my netbook is the N10J, with a dedicated GeForce 9300M GPU; its currently the only laptop I have, so I use it to play games when I'm away from the desktop. It plays COD4 with very playable framerates at the lowest widescreen res.
Spartacus
March 28, 2009 at 11:47am
I hope they add an ODD to an N10J style netbook with a dedicated graphics chip. That would make installing games much simpler and less expensive; I had to buy an external DVD drive for mine.
Keith E. Whisman
March 27, 2009 at 11:57pm
finally. now put an odd on that convertable netbook/tablet pc tha I want.
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