A couple of weeks ago we reported on the upcoming Asus Eee Box EB1501. Well, the official manual for this powerful nettop from Asus is now up at the Asus global site. And you can pre-order the Eee Box EB1501 at Amazon UK as well. Yes, right now.
The Eee Box EB1501 User Manual is available in several languages including Chinese, English, Dutch, Finish, French, German, Italian, Hungarian, Spanish and Thai. So if you are anywhere in those countries, expect the EB1501 to hit the local market soon.
Better yet, order your EB1501 unit now at Amazon and prepare to spend around £381.10.
With that price, you’d get a nettop with dual core 1.6GHz Atom 330 CPU, NVIDIA IO graphics, slot loading DVD burner plus some other goodies.
Before you start blaming Asus’ desicion to redesign its Eee Keyboard recently as the culprit why its release is delayed again, stop. According to Digitimes, that is not the reason why the Eee Keyboard won’t be reaching the market in time for the holiday season but will have to wait until 2010.
The reason? Well, the original version of the Eee Keyboard didn’t make it through some wireless testing regulation.
The good news is – once it comes out in 2010, perhaps during CES 2010 we might be looking at a better Eee Keyboard. That’s the bottom line of it all. What’s the point of rushing a gadget when you know that it will just conk out on users easily?
Just when does Asus actually plans to release its innovative Eee Keyboard. It was supposed to come out last month right? or this month? But anyway, it looks like the Eee Keyboard’s market debut is delayed anew as Asus has just redesigned it a bit.
Register Hardware was able to get a hands-on the redesigned keyboard and guess what? What use to be a resistive 5-inch touchscreen display is now replaced with a capacitive panel. This is similar to what the iPhone and other touch-screen handsets apparently use and which Asus’ product design head Ken Wang said has a better touch responsiveness.
In addition, the Eee Keyboard now also supports gesture control similar to the recently released Apple Magic Mouse. It can launch a web browser just by swiping to fingers on its screen. Sleek!
Asus also plans to release both non-metallic and metallic versions of the Eee Keyboard. When? That remains to be answered.
We all know what it means when an upcoming product starts showing up on it’s mother company’s global site, right? It means that product is now being prepared for international launch. Well, that seems to be the case for the new Eee PC 1001HA which we covered recently.
The Eee PC 1001HA is now appearing on the Asus global site. This new member of the Eee PC Seashell family looks like a toned down version of the Eee PC 1005HA. It’s features and specs speak well of what this new netbook can bring when it comes out.
With the released of Windows 7, Asustek Chairman Jerry Shen is optimistic that netbook and notebook shipment of his company would increase from 12 million units in 2009 to more than 16 million units in 2010. Shen also predicts that global notebook shipments, including netbooks will increase to 180-190 million units in 2010 from 140 million units in 2009.
With these predictions, Jerry Shen is still confident that his company’s target to become a global top-three vendor by 2011 is still achievable.
A few days after Windows 7 was released Shen is reporting that Asustek has shifted 30% of its Eee PC netbooks to Windows 7 OS. And he is expecting this to increase by 80% in the first quarter of 2010. He also said that most of these Eee PC’s will be running on Intel Pine Trail-M Platform.
Shen also mentioned something about Asustek’s touchscreen products saying that Asus will be limiting their units into 9 to 11 inch netbook models or the 20-inch and above all-in-one PCs.
Here’s one good reason why you should upgrade your netbook’s Windows XP to Windows 7. Netbook News was able to compare the battery performance of two Eee PC 1008HA, one running Windows XP and the other running Windows 7.
And guess what? The Windows 7-powered Eee PC 1008 lasted for 7 hours 7 minutes and 30 seconds. While the one running Windows XP was able to last only for 5 hours, 3 minuteds and 18 seconds.
Both netbooks were at maximum power with the following settings – full brightness, Wireless LAN and Bluetooth both ON and under the super performance mode.
The new Eee PC 1008HA with Windows 7 sells for $464 while the old model sells for $379.
Following our recent posts about the pricing details and release date of the Eee PC 1201HA, Netbook Italia has unearthed the manual of the said netbook right from the Asus Taiwan site. And the said manual revealed that there will be two other Eee PC 1201 models – the 1201N and 1201T.
The Eee PC 1201N will have an Nvidia ION platform and HDMI output while the 1201T will have a slightly different design and will have no HDMI capability.
As for the Eee PC 1201HA details, it’s still the same Intel Atom Z520 CPU, 2GB of Memory, 250GB of HDD and of course Windows 7.
In addition, the Eee PC 1201HA will have the following ports on its sides – memory card slot, headphone output jack slot, microphone jack and 3 USB ports.
The Eee PC 1201HA will be available next month in Italy for around 399 euros.
If you’re looking to upgrade from XP or Vista on your netbook, or perhaps you already have, then here’s some great news for you. Some netbook makers have already updated the driver download pages to include Windows 7 drivers which should work better than Vista drivers you may be using instead. Most Asus netbooks now have drivers for Windows 7 from their support page.
Other companies have updated their support pages but, not all companies support many netbook models. There is support from Toshiba for the NB205, while Acer are providing Windows 7 drivers for the Aspire One 751 and AOP531h with AOD250 to follow. Dell are listing drivers for the Mini 10v and Mini 10 but not the Inspiron Mini 9 or 12. HP on the other hand have support for discontinued netbooks, such as the HP Mini 2140. They’ve also got support for the 110, 5101 and other models. Lenovo have also updated their support page to include manuals but, no drivers yet. This could change soon though.
Netbook Reviews is running a full hands-on feature of the upcoming Eee Box EB1501 – now with the monicker “the world’s smallest, and first VESA-mountable PC with an internal optical drive.
The Eee Box EB1501 is loaded with a slim, slot feed DVD burner, NVIDIA Ion graphics, dual core Intel Atom 330 CPU and supports HD display capability. It also features a 2GB of RAM, 250GB of HDD, Windows 7 Premium, 6 USB ports, multicard reader, HDMI and VGA output, Wi-Fi and Gigabit Ethernet.
The Eee Box is capable displaying HD video at a low processor usage of only around 14%. That will give you pretty much several hours to complete two movies on one run I guess.
Another interesting feature of the Eee Box EB1501 is that it comes with a desk stand and VESA bracket that will allow users to mount the nettop at the back of their HDTVs or LCD Monitors.
The Asus Eee Box EB1501 will be available with Windows 7 Home Premium for around £339.
And here’s a short video demo of the Eee Box EB1501 running in full circles.
So aside from the Eee PC 1005HA and 1005HA Business Edition, Asus is also releasing another variant of the Seashell series. This time it is called the Eee PC 1005HR.
Aside from running Windows 7, the Eee PC 1005HR would also have a 10.1-inch display with in 1366×768 display. That translates into a full HD-display capability.
The Eee PC 1005HR is currently available in black and has a price tag of around $389. This is the same price as the original Eee PC 1005HA.
Other details and specs of the Eee PC 1005HR include – Intel Atom N280 CPU, 1GB of RAM, GMA 950 graphics, 250GB HDD, 0.3MP webcam, various ports, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 6-cell battery which is good for 8.4 hours of use.
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