Make no mistake, we've seen an
Eee PC 1008 before -- but this whole "P" thing is just getting official today at CES. It's the same machine
we saw leaked a few weeks back, and thankfully for those who dig the whole "vivacious" scene, it'll be available in both hot pink and coffee brown. Designed by Karim Rashid, ASUS' latest netbook gets powered by Intel's new Atom N450 processor and features a 10.1-inch display, Windows 7 Home Premium, 1GB of DDR2 memory, a 250GB hard drive, 802.11n WiFi, gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 2.1, 1.3 megapixel camera, a 3-cell removable battery and a 2.5 pound chassis. We'll keep you posted on a price and release, but for now, have a gander at the press shots below.
Update: We nabbed a quick hands-on and took a video of the new removable battery, check it below.
posted January 5th 2010 5:16PM
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How the hell does Karim keep convincing people he has talent?
We're going to get an article for every single N450-powered machine released in the next 9-12 months, aren't we...
The pink one's gross. Well at least you can watch yourself humiliated by carrying that around in full HD.
The coffee brown looks decent, though.
@Stoichiometry
I think the pink is meant for females. Just so you know...
@Stoichiometry Not sold on the idea of coffee beans with glossy coating.
Looks great from the outside but as soon as you open it, it looks like a cheap piece of equipment.
@Hydraulics It's a netbook for chrissakes...If they build them like Vertus then you people will complain it's too expensive and should buy a Celeron laptop instead.
@ToniCipriani
There's plenty of netbooks with nice-looking and sturdy keyboards.
e.g look at HP-mini-1000 or Acer Aspire One.
I got excited seeing 1080P for a minute . . .
same
How does this compare to 1005P? And regular 1008? Battery time / performance.
@jules the 1008 seems to be the slimmer variant of the 1005, so battery life should be half of the 1005p which translates to 7h and is better than the old 1008(ha?).
so the 1005p is the way to go (14h battery).
so this was all asus had to show?
@wupolo i mean there whole event was like 3 computers....
I could be interested in the Hot Coffee version ....
@Joanna I'm not seeing any video here...
really? home premium and not starter? are my eyes deceiving me, or is this a new trend i see?
Love the swappable battery, hate the texture design.
Will they have a matte (or even glossy!) black version for normal folks who don't want to make a statement with their netbooks?
I will not consider this one simply because Karim Rashid 'designed' it. What a (white jacket pink shirted rubbish spewing) dweeb, watch him on Objectified and realise what fake he is.
Oooh, I like the brown edition; It'd be the ultimate look with Ubuntu on there; a brown netbook with a warm brown OS; the perfect match.
(If you like brown... hmm.. I seem to be wearing brown jeans, a brown jumper and a brown hat.. and I'm using a brown operating system...)
No HDMI, what gives? Would love to see this with 720p screen resolution.