1   | ASUS planning dual screen Eee Reader submited by johnflaum in Gadgets |
The world of ebooks is about to start a new chapter with the arrival of the cheapest digital reader on the market. Asus, one of the world’s biggest consumer electronics businesses, confirmed last week that it is planning to shake up the market in the same way it did when it launched the first netbook — the low-cost alternative to the laptop.
Source: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web...
Asus Unveils EEE Box 1501 Nettop PC
Taiwanese manufacturer Asus has announced the release of its most powerful nettop to date, the EEE Box 1501, which amongst other things has one of the most gorgeous computer designs ever to grace an office.
Asus offers specs for Eee 1201N netbook
NVIDIA and Asus announced yesterday that several computers in the Eee line would be getting Ion graphics. Today Asus has offered up the full specifications of the Eee 1201N netbook that was one of the machines mentioned yesterday with the Ion announcement.
ASUS best, HP worst for notebook reliability
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'Alex', A Dual Screen Android E-Book Reader
It used to be that “convergence” meant putting two different (but hopefully complementary) devices into the same case. Scratch that. This still happens today, as proved by the Alex, a long box with an e-book reader in one end and an Android-powered cellular device in the other. The dual-screen device, from a company called Spring Design, is like a Pop-Tart with jelly in one end and baloney in the other.
Score a 10-inch Asus Netbook for $239.99
I’ll cop to posting a lot of Netbook deals these days, but that’s only because the deals just keep getting better. Witness Mwave’s latest: a refurbished Asus Eee PC 1005HAB 10-inch Netbook for $239.99 shipped.
