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ASUS launches a Core i5-based business notebook with Optimus technology

Published on: 18th March, 2010

ASUS has presented a large series of products at CeBIT in Germany. Among them, the PL30JT business notebook, which relies on a 1.06GHz Intel Core i5 processor, the GeForce 310M graphics chipset from NVIDIA with 1GB of memory and the integrated GMA HD graphics processor from Intel. The operation of the latter two components is [...]

Cine5 compact surround PC speaker bar rolled out by ASUS

Published on: 14th March, 2010

ASUS has rolled out what it claims to be the smallest five-channel speaker array in the world. The Cine5 is meant to provide computers with surround sound in a special single piece design. It uses standard analogue 3.5mm connections for surround instead of optical ones, but can restore details lost while a track is downmixed [...]

Eee Keyboard again delayed by ASUS to April

Published on: 6th March, 2010

ASUS president Jonney Shih finally announced the Eee Keyboard to be launched in April this year. This news comes from the CeBIT show in Germany and after about one year from the introduction at last year’s CeBIT show. The hybrid PC, as it was called, has been delayed from the promised launch in June 2009 [...]

Three new ASUS Eee PC netbooks

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

Three new models of ASUS’ Eee PC netbooks, with 10.1-inch displays, have recently been leaked. The flagship, which is the 1018P, is a designer model with a just 18mm (0.7 inches) thick aluminum body. This will be among the first netbooks to have USB 3.0 support; it should also offer a chiclet keyboard, a large [...]

ASUS’s T101MT convertible netbook is now official

Published on: 18th February, 2010

ASUS T101MT convertible netbook, spotted, on Christmas Eve, at the FCC, has now gone official, as full specifications are available on ASUS’s website. Information leaked in December is confirmed, as the new netbook has a 1.66Ghz Intel Atom N450 processor and a 10.1-inch LED-backlit multi-input touchscreen, with a resolution of 1024×600. The default OS is [...]

New, faster version of ASUS EeePC 1005PE-H

Published on: 13th February, 2010

The European market has recently been witness to the quiet launch of a new version of ASUS’s EeePC 1005PE netbook. Its name is EeePC 1005PE-H and it benefits from the usual 1.66GHz dual-core Atom processor. As an improvement, it gets 2GB of RAM instead of the usual 1GB, as well as a 320GB HDD, which [...]

Two ASUS e-readers to be released in Europe and US in spring

Published on: 31st January, 2010

ASUS is supposed to launch its two new e-book readers in the United States and Europe in spring. The two models are the 6-inch DR-570 OLED e-book and the 9-inch DR-950 model. The PC maker will also release readers with colour screens by next winter. Both readers use SiPix e-paper screens and Samsung processors.
Although rumours [...]

Slate prototypes and possible smartbooks at ASUS

Published on: 27th January, 2010

Chairman Jonney Shih has made public the future plans of ASUS and has predicted a successful development of the company. ASUS is developing slate PCs specially designed for multimedia and web use but will not release them until content becomes accessible enough for the users. The content he referred to included music, videos, games and [...]

ASUS to reveal a highly-competitive OLED e-book reader

Published on: 21st January, 2010

The Taiwanese ASUS enters, although a bit late, the highly-competitive market of e-book readers with its DR-570 device. The 6-inch e-book reader was absent at the recent CES show, but is expected to be a technologically advanced device, with a bright OLED colour display and an impressive 122-hour battery life. The DR-570 is believed to [...]

ASUS to choose between Android and Chrome for tablets and smartbooks

Published on: 21st January, 2010

A ZDNet report is revealing that the Taiwanese PC manufacturer ASUS is now testing smartbooks that run on both Chrome and Android operating systems and is also thinking to add an ARM-based PC to the Intel-powered Eee PC netbooks. Jonney Shih, ASUS chairman, has mentioned this in a recent interview. He also said that the [...]

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