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A real product or another "concept device"? Well it is an Asus, and presumably it (they) run Android.



Defo a really really thin netbook coming real soon from Asus though. I presume this will have an Atom 550 dual core CPU, and be overpriced by £100 at UK launch - like most Asus devices seem to be these days.

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threegee, on 07 June 2011 - 02:04 AM, said:

Defo a really really thin netbook coming real soon from Asus though. I presume this will have an Atom 550 dual core CPU, and be overpriced by £100 at UK launch - like most Asus devices seem to be these days.

Well how wrong can you be??! It isn't going to use a 550, but a new Atom chip(set) that's aimed at the the ARM CPU market. And, it is going to be cheap cheap cheap at under $200 U.S. What's more the sub-$200 base product will be shipped with... wait for it.... MeeGo!

So, a super thin netbook that weighs usefully under 1Kg; the most popular 10" screen size - so no compromises there then; and a fair bit more power than an ARM tablet - even the newer dual core ARM chips; plus near instant on with a decent OS booting out of ROM. Put that all together with the lack of overhead from a Java machine (c.f. Android); the ability to fit a HD and dual-boot Windoze; stir in the slimness of a Macbook Air(head) - but don't lose too many port connectors and hopefully a proper clip-in battery, and an ultra big track pad that's going to much better at point 'n' shoot than a low-precision pinkie on a capacitive screen. What do you have? A huge seller, and a real commercial winner! Likely the average person's first intro to MeeGo! (and, you thought I'd been droning on all this time about something which was never going to touch your life?). A return to the low-cost era which made the original EEE PC such a commercial success, and well timed for recessionary times too.

Translate $US into £UK? Umm... don't thing they are going to quite get away with that, despite the UK VAT man. Anyway, my 200 minus one smackers are on the table anyway; when can I have one?


If that doesn't look particularly cool to you just wait until you actually have one in your hand? £600 quid for an ARM powered tablet?! Think that more-money-than-sense market just hit the buffers folks!

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