Hasta La Gadget!

We got a quick look at ASUS’s new Eee PC tablets today, the T91 and T101H. The netbook heritage is unmistakable — you only have to peep the 8.9-inch and 10-inch respective screen sizes and Atom processors — but the two machines offer up full-on swivel tablet functionality, and look pretty good doing it. The chiclet keyboard on the T101H is a slight improvement over the standard Eee PC keyboard on the T91 — which is a tad less firm, and with less room for distinct spacing. We found the hinge to be just alright, only rotating in a clockwise direction, and showing bit of “give.” Otherwise it’s pretty standard Eee, with ASUS’s standard march toward sexy and the deepest stack of SKUs in the industry.

Filed under: Tablet PCs

ASUS Eee PC T91 and T101H touchscreen tablet hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ASUS hinted at some alternative Eee form factors in the Spring of last year, but it’s a Japanese modder that’s showing the company exactly how it shouldn’t approach an Eee-branded tablet PC. It’s a touch tough to understand exactly what’s going on, but here’s what is (partially) clear: the hack job took around ten hours to complete, and the outer edges are inexplicably covered in aluminum foil. It’s encased in some sort of transparent housing — which we suppose is pretty nifty for showing off the internals — and the retrofitted touchpanel provides the tasty tablet functionality. Apparently this guy spent around ¥11,000 ($128) over and above the cost of the Eee PC in order to construct the final result pictured above — the question is: was it really worth it?

[Via Fashion Funky, thanks Bob]

Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs

Japanese DIYer shows ASUS how not to make an Eee Tablet PC originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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