Tag: Asus
The Wind PC – MSI's competition for the Asus Ebox sub-desktop computer
Anything Asus can do, we an do better. That’s the new company motto at MSI who has just announced a new sub-desktop computer, the Wind PC, at Computex…
Asus officially launches Eee PC 901 and 1000 laptops
The 901 has been bandied around for a while, but until now it’s not been made official. And there’s also an Eee PC 1000 announced too…
Eee PC 901 to bring price cuts to older Asus models
If you bought yourself an Eee PC 900 in the last two weeks, don’t say I didn’t warn you as news hits us today that prices are set to drop…
Eee 900 battery issue not as bad as first thought, only five people complained to ASUS apparently
In his video review of the Eee 900, Dan noted that he was slightly disappointed with the battery life. Several other people have also commented on this downfall in the otherwise-amazing sub-notebook, causing ASUS to generously offer a brand new, better battery, for just £10.
However, when I spoke to an anonymous source at ASUS this morning, I was told that only five people had complained to the company about the battery life, so either everyone has very low expectations on a laptop’s battery life (I know I have, after many bad experiences with machines); only five people own an Eee 900; or everyone is using the little fella connected to a power source…
Asus Ufoto UF735 – photo frame and secondary PC display
Hang on, this isn’t just another photo frame, the Asus Ufoto UF735 offers that little bit extra…
Acer is next to jump onto the sub-notebook craze with the rumoured Mini-Note Aspire One
Cor – hot on the heels of yesterday’s news about the Dell sub-notebook, and the 3K we just wrote about, Acer has jumped onto our radar with the rumour that they’re to release a Mini-Note, as pictured above.
Codenamed ‘Aspire One’ for now, it looks like it has an 8.9″ screen and runs on Windows XP SP3. It’s been spotted at the Computex show in Taipei, and whilst the information is hazier than a foggy morning, it looks like it’ll cost 299€, placing it in direct competition with ASUS’ Eee 900. Considering Acer…
Shiny Video Review: Eee PC 900 – nice computer, iffy battery
I’ve been fortunate enough to be carrying around the new Eee PC 900 for the past few days and so I sat down with Susi of Shiny Shiny fame and had a little chat about what’s changed from the old version and the new.
That desktop Eee PC? Yep, it'll be renamed as the Ebox, and announced by ASUS June 3rd
Remember the rumours regarding a desktop PC version of the ASUS Eee? Finally, some more concrete evidence has landed in our RSS feeds, albeit with the same mocked-up images as before.
Just like their Eee, it’ll be a budget sub-desktop PC, with just 2GB of memory and a 160GB hard drive. They’ve given it a catchy name and everything – the Ebox. Think dyslexics will have a tough time discerning between the Ebox and Xbox? Me too.
The Register is claiming the Ebox will run on Linux, although my bet is they’ll add an XP version a few months after the launch. Also…
ASUS shows off the lovely leather U2E laptop in Korea – WANT!
With any luck this leather laptop from ASUS will be a darn-sight cheaper than the $5,000 offering from Lenovo – I’m a vegetarian but even I can appreciate how gorgeous that dead cow is, reclining on the metal interior of the U2E, above.
Measuring 11″, it’s just launched in Korea, and features an energy-efficient LED backlit display (1366 x 768, if you must know), a 32GB solid-state drive, and an Intel Core 2 Duo U7600 processor. There’s a DVD-Super Multi…
Acer Aspire PREDATOR – Quad-Core, SLI, RAID and the all-important flashing blue LEDs
Acer’s upcoming Aspire PREDATOR desktop line-up is all based around specs. It’s for people who like specs, know their specs and can tell you what the clock speed of their computer’s RAM is and the average temperature of their CPU. And the brand of the glue adhering the CPU to the motherboard. And the type of motherboard. And the PSU capacity. You get the idea.
The PREDATOR (their capital letters, not mine for once) comes in a “deep metallic copper coloured housing perfectly representing the power it encloses,” with the moving front masking a DVD and Blu-ray burner. Here’s what a PC with a moving front looks like:
It looks INSANE. Acer’s Easy-swap technology lets you pop open the front and remove the Serial ATA hard drives…
