Tablet PCs are great computing machines but both comes with a hefty price. That’s why for those who are looking for a portable computing machine with lesser power resort to buying netbook insteads. But what if you can transform your netbook, more particularly the Eee PC 700 and its other variants into an improvised tablet PC complete with touchscreen kit?

Aeeeris Tablet Conversion Kit for the Asus Eee PC might be what you are looking for to make your dream of owning a Tablet PC a reality, sort of. The Aeeeris Tablet Conversion Kit consists of your Eee PC 700 or 701, the Aeeeris Faceplate and a touchscreen kit. And since converting your Eee PC into a Tablet PC, UMPC or an ereader is a DIY project, you would need the following aside from the three parts we mentioned. These materials include:

• Dremel
• Screwdriver
• Thermal Paste
• Needle Nose Pliers
• Double Sided Tape.

The process would also require opening up your Eee PC and tampering with the parts inside. So, unless you have another netbook perhaps or knows about technical stuff, you may want to follow these procedures at the Aeeeris site.

You can buy the Aeeeris kit by contacting the developer there. And you can find the Touchscreen kit at various online stores, for example at DealExtreme.

The touchscreen kit costs about $40.
Aeeeris costs $60.
So for a total cost of $100 you can transform your EEE PC to a tablet PC.

And yes, should you embark on this experiment which the Aeeeris site owner said would take only 30 minutes, we just want to wish you – Goodluck!

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