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Computex is really starting to ramp up now, as ASUS has taken the covers off its brand new Eee Pads. Of most interest will be the 12-inch EP121, which sports Intel’s Core 2 Duo CULV processors, Windows 7, and a reputed 10-hour battery life. Sort of like a laptop sans the keyboard, you might say, which is probably why ASUS is also touting a “hybrid” dock/keyboard solution for those times when you want some more tactile feedback to your typing. The Eee Pad will also include an integrated webcam and at least one USB port. A 10-inch EP101TC is being announced today as well, though its specs are less detailed and it’s set to run Windows Embedded Compact 7 — you can see it after the break, along with the full PR. We’ll be doing our best to bring you hands-on pics and video shortly.

Update: ASUS has given us a $399 to $499 price range for the Eee Pads, but don’t start salivating just yet. We were also told that the Eee Pad won’t be out until the first quarter of 2011.

Update 2: As promised, we’ve now got a preview of both devices, which you’ll find right here.

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ASUS Eee Pad official: Intel CULV processors, Windows 7, and a 10-hour battery life originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 May 2010 03:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We don’t say this very often, but some products are just worth the wait. And well, the ExoPC Slate looks like it’s going to be one of those very products. After months of following along, we finally got to spend some quality time with the 11.6-inch slate at Computex, and came away surprisingly impressed. Read on after the break for our impressions of this Windows 7 tablet, what that funky UI is all about, and a video of the Slate in action. Oh, and after you’ve done all that, don’t forget to feast your eyes on the gallery below.

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ExoPC Slate hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 May 2010 10:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Wi-Fi Sync is quite the gem (at least we think so) but it had some limitations — namely, it only worked on OS X for desktop, and only with iPhone / iPod touch. Developer Greg Hughes pinged us earlier today to let us know he’s thrown the gates off such restrictions. The jailbroken app now works for both iPads and Windows — XP, Vista, and 7. The desktop client is free to download but it still cost just a hair under $10 for the appropriate mobile device. Worth the price of breaking free from wires? Your call.

Wi-Fi Sync now compatible with Windows and iPad originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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At this point, we don’t even know if HP’s Slate is still hitting the market — but one thing we do know is that there’s no evidence to suggest that the company will be releasing it with webOS instead of Windows 7. In fact, the two platforms are so wildly different and targeted for such disjoint devices — never mind the fact that HP and Palm aren’t yet united in the legal sense of the word — that there’s virtually no chance that the existing Slate hardware could be effectively used in time for a near-term webOS tablet launch (at least, not a tablet that anyone would want to buy). There’s word on Gizmodo today that the Slate will be offered as a webOS device, but that appears to be a misinterpretation of a DigiTimes report from HP Taiwan that the company intends to use Palm’s operating system to underpin both “smartphones and tablets,” while avoiding porting it to netbooks since they’re “more similar in functions with traditional computers.” Given the Slate’s lukewarm reception, we can totally understand HP canning it in its current incarnation — but you can’t just drop a flashy mobile platform onto it and call it good. Interestingly, the DigiTimes report goes on to say (on an unrelated note) that the Slate will come to market before October, but it’s unclear whether they’re taking into account the most recent round of rumors that it’s been deep-sixed; guess we’ll know soon enough.

HP Slate isn’t rumored to be switching from Windows 7 to webOS originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 12:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We (falsely) assumed that the Windows 7 Whopper would be the last food item ever associated with an operating system, and now we’re quite literally eating our words. As the story goes, a Hot Fried 77 restaurant has opened up over in Taiwan, offering tons of “Windows-themed meals” for NTD $77 (around $3 in Greenbacks), and judging by the cornucopia of images down there in the source, we’re guessing this is no prank. We’re debating whether laughing or crying is the appropriate emotion here.

Josh T.: “While you’re throwing .bak some fries and a burger, you should enjoy a .dll pickle.”
Nilay: “This is not what we meant by Windows 7 Server.”
Chris: “I’m a PC, and putting down a pint of Beast while installing Windows 7 was my idea.”
Richard Lai: “This is the real Windows Genuine Advantage.”
Joe: “We like to believe that Microsoft started with the restaurant and then reverse engineered an OS.”
Richard Lawler: “Obviously, there’s no word for Seagrams in their language.”
Darren: “You haven’t heard? Alcohol consumption by end-user is now listed in Minimum System Requirements.”
Josh F.: “When reading ‘serve it to us on a plate’ in a literal sense goes horribly right.”
Joanna: “Everything I come up with is just wrong.”
Don: “Can you tell me where the XP Cafe is?”
Paul: “Would you like that in 32-bit or 64-bit?”

[Thanks, Chris]

Caption contest: Windows 7-themed restaurant serves 64-bit grub in Taiwan originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 May 2010 12:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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