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!

Raon Digital are to produce two new SSD based versions of their Everun Note netbook/UMPC.

There will be an S16S which is set to be a Sempron based unit with a 1.2Ghz CPU, running Ubuntu Mobile and with a 12GB SSD (MLC).  The second model on offer will be a super fast Dual Core Turion based unit entitled the D24S. That will be fitted with a 24GB SSD (which comprises of 16GB MLC and 8GB SLC). The D24S will be running Windows XP as an operating system.

Pricing isn’t confirmed yet but expect to pay around $659 for the S16S and $950 for the superior D24S model. The S16S is available mid November but, if you are interested in buying the D24S, it’s available for preorder now.

As umpcportal pointed out, all the Note needs now is built in 3g and it would be an absolute gem of a UMPC.

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In the interview for TechRadar the Samsung official Jeongseon Euh said that so far the company has sold about 100,000 Q1 and the Q1 Ultra UMPCs, and that Samsung holds about 65% of the UMPC market. At the same time Euh said that the third generation of the Q1 should be ready for next year, probably first models at CES next year. via [TechRadar]

From out of nowhere, and without too much hype, Sharp and Willcom has unveiled a new UMPC that has the potential to make it big in the market. Welcome the Willcom D4 aka WSO16H. Akihabara news has got the scoop on the new UMPC.

The Willcom D4 UMPC weighs only 470g and measures 84X188X25.9 mm. It’s got 1GB of RAM, 40GB of HDD, running on Centrino Atom Z520 (1.33 GHz), 5″ touch scree (1024×600) LCD with LED backlight, full keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, 2 mp video camera and has Windows Vista Home Premium for its OS. What more can you possible asked for?

No information on pricing yet as well as when it’s going to be available in the market. For more pictures, check out Akihabara News.

An intriguing ‘laptop’ has appeared on the web today, and it is anything but standard. This new machine, lacking specs or the makers name, is made of a couple pen-shaped devices.

The machine operates via a couple of thin ‘pens’ that are Bluetooth enabled. These devices project the screen and keyboard onto any flat surfaces.

There’s no other features listed, no other information at all. There is one picture of the person who is presumed to be the created, but nothing is official.

It will be interesting to see if anything comes of this design.

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