http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/ Engadget Comments for ASUS Eee Pad coming soon? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/Dec 10th 2009 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/A weak atom processor, 1Gb of ram and little/slow SSD storage. Probably no optical media and windows 7 installed. priced between $600~$700.

Here's hoping it has full Wacom digitizer support, a full bluetooth stack, and at least ion graphics.]]>Dec 10th 2009 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/
WTF would anyone other than a waitress, inventory-taker, or sales rep do with one of these? Especially when they're bound to be woefully overpriced and underpowered when compared to a laptop. At least a decent laptop has things like an ExpressCard port so you can actually have mobile Internet. People act as though a device with 802.11 is connected to the Internet as you walk around the city or even the block. Obviously it isn't. So what we have here is a giant, unwieldy, unpocketable iPod touch at best.

What's the point? All you can say about tablets is that they're more useful that the other overhyped computing boondoggle of the last five years: multitouch.]]>Dec 10th 2009 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/You can buy many Tablet PCs with 3G. My lenovo x61 tablet has everything a "real" laptop has. The other common brands (fujitsu, hp, acer) are comparable.]]>Dec 10th 2009 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/Dec 10th 2009 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/I love apple punch.]]>Dec 10th 2009 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/I'm sorry but you fail to acknowledge the entire student demographic from K-12 to AA to PHD.
It would also be nice to efficiently use resources by going digital with notebooks and text books thus saving paper, ink and lowering the rates of deforestation. Not only that but saving time when looking up notes and physical space. I can't wait to do away with notebooks and book shelves by going all digital at school. Believe it or not the future will move forward with or without you as is the nature of technology. Rejected at first but eventually will be adopted later once trendsetters pick them up and market them correctly.]]>Dec 10th 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/Dec 10th 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/
"I'm sorry but you fail to acknowledge the entire student demographic from K-12 to AA to PHD."

Do I need to? I would have thought this is an obvious example of the relative worthlessness of tablet computing. How are you going to take notes in class with one of these things without a keyboard? Tap them out with a shitty "virtual" keyboard? Scrawl them out with a stylus on a slick plastic surface?

A cheeseball netbook would kick the ass of a tablet for classroom note-taking.

You might have a point about textbooks, except a tablet with a backlit computer-style screen is not suitable for them either. You don't want to be trying to read off one of those things for hours at a time. If you did, the computer would once again be a viable option. An E-book reader would be pretty cool for textbooks, though.]]>Dec 11th 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/
]]>Dec 16th 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/wacom dual digitizer (pen & capacitive touch)
no keyboard
lots of wireless
2gb+ of ram
64gb+ ssd (intel's 80gb ssd preferred)
very good battery life

Nice:
ion
display port
decent built-in mic and webcam]]>Dec 10th 2009 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/Dec 10th 2009 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/Dec 10th 2009 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/Dec 10th 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/Dec 10th 2009 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/Dec 10th 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/Dec 10th 2009 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/Dec 10th 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/Dec 10th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/
itouch, pda's and mid screens are too small for me, laptops and netbooks are portrait mode, and ebooks aren't broad enough to run book media that comes in html, doc, txt, pdf, lit, etc. like a general purpose computer can. Plus if I want to use it for music, I'm not limited to the codecs the hardware manufacturer deigns to allow me to use ( I like ogg and flac).

I'd even prefer it to come in monochrome/e-ink display for (hardware)cost and battery life savings. No problem emailing and Im'ing in monochrome. Hey, it could even do voip!

On the OS side there's netbook remixes of Linux. MS could effect the same thing by allowing special options branch off the general win-7 installer. Add a 'monochrome' color scheme to either OS and 'voila!' a kindle/pmp killer!

Let phones make phone calls, color devices play videos, and game devices play games. I need this device for the other stuff. You don't need a $500 machine that makes 27 kinds of coffee and has an optional dvr, when what you really need is a toaster.
]]>Dec 10th 2009 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/Should read: "laptops and netbooks are landscape mode"]]>Dec 10th 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/Dec 10th 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/
Color me skeptical that their tablet is going to break the trend and not feel more like an Etch A Sketch than a $400 product. Although, they'll follow other developers along, I suppose, who put out nicer products.]]>Dec 10th 2009 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/asus-eee-pad-coming-soon/
Though the eReaders are extremely cool, access to the books can be tricky - check out, "When Free Isn't Free" found here : http://www.themarknews.com/articles/511-when-free-isnt-free

On the other hand, it's awesome that, "All That's Old is New Again" - http://www.themarknews.com/articles/730-all-thats-old-is-new-again

Enjoy!]]>Dec 11th 2009 10:23AM