http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/ Engadget Comments for ASUS Eee PC T101MT headed to US in April for $499 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/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 27th 2010 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
/Sarcasm]]>Mar 27th 2010 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/And who would want to type on a real keyboard? Yech!]]>Mar 27th 2010 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
Yes, this is the ultimate Windows 7 tablet computer that is just going to crush iPad sales because it has everything geeks look for in a convertible computer. It's amazing how geeks can turn a bottom feeding netvertible into some sort of super-mobile computing platform. I can just imagine the huge sales this puppy is going to generate from low-tech consumers.

So, this is the paradigm shift the world has been waiting for and all the publishing companies are jumping on board with ASUS. Take my content, please. Twist me, bend me, fold me, break me.]]>Mar 27th 2010 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
Wtf man, he just said he liked the price...

Or are you afraid of something?]]>Mar 27th 2010 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/If this Eee had the kind of hype and marketing $ as the ipad has it would definitely outsell that overgrown itouch. ]]>Mar 27th 2010 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
Pretty sure the specs on this device crush the iPad. If this is a bottom feeding netvertible what does that make the iPad?

For me, the prices need to drop another $100. At $399 I would take the plunge. That's a $100 tax for a touchscreen on a decent netbook. Seems like a reasonable cost trade off. At $200 above current netbook pricing, it's still a little steep.]]>Mar 28th 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 29th 2010 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
And how many of them had a full scale media marketing blitz? Late night shows? The Oscars? Half hour prime time TV product placement? Constant, unrelenting coverage on every gadget blog on the internet?

See, the amazing thing about marketing is it actually works.
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Yeah it's got some real chunkiness to it ; p]]>Mar 28th 2010 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 28th 2010 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 30th 2010 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 27th 2010 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
Agreed. I've been waiting for the Eee 1201PN. Is there any chance this has ION2? If so, I'm buying. I'd trade a 12 inch standard screen for a 10 inch multitouch any day.]]>Mar 27th 2010 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
Nevermind, checked the read link. By the way, can you have a capacitive resistive touchscreen?]]>Mar 28th 2010 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
In other words, this could be an affordable, portable digital sketchbook. But instead, it's an overpriced netbook with a touchscreen that amounts to little more than a marketing gimmick.]]>Mar 27th 2010 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/You think multitouch is going away? Hmm, you willing to bet on that?

......

How much?]]>Mar 27th 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
No, but neither will active digitizers which are far more useful on a convertible tablet.

Convertible implies drawing/writing of some kind and doing that with a passive digitizer just sucks. If they had included a Wacom Digitizer + the Resistive screen, this thing would be a hit amongst college students at least. ]]>Mar 27th 2010 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
Apple made a device with software that has a symbiotic relationship with multitouch, everyone loved it, and now people are slapping the technology onto devices as an afterthought just to be able to say it has multitouch.

Maybe fad isn't exactly the right term, since multitouch itself won't just disappear, but the sloppy, impractical, "me too!" implementation of it will. Hopefully.]]>Mar 27th 2010 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 27th 2010 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/I think you may be underestimating the demographic a bit. I would love to be able to takes notes in class with both a keyboard and have the option to quickly switch to a stylus and draw diagrams or write equations. I imagine that there are many other students out there that would be interested in the same.

However, I don't see a 'netvertible' being able to do that task well. The Lenovo X201t looks like a badass tablet, but it's also like 4 times the price of the T101MT. Personally, I still don't see a use for these multitouch netbooks or slate PC's which would be worth the $500 price.]]>Mar 27th 2010 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Yep. I use an old model p4/centrino tablet from Motion Computing. I'd really like a Wacom digitizer on an atom platform and form factor for school.]]>Mar 27th 2010 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Yeah, I'm and engineering student and I'd been waiting for a netvertible with a Wacom digitizer, but it didn't look like one was coming. So I bought the next best thing which was the HP TM2 and I'm quite satisifed with my purchase. However, I'd still love a $500 tablet with a physical keyboard. It'd be so practical using it to annotate lecture notes and draw diagrams etc. and the small form factor would make it easy to carry around uni. ]]>Mar 27th 2010 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Methinks you may be more in the market for an HP TOUCHSMART 2 convertible.....

I'll be honest....it is the most full featured out there.....if they hadn't botched screwing over all the original TX1000 owners so bad....they would probably have tons of return customers instead of losing tons of them. All in all it is still an impressive machine.]]>Mar 28th 2010 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
The Fujitsu T4310 is nicer than the HP TM2.]]>Mar 28th 2010 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
:/]]>Mar 27th 2010 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 27th 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 28th 2010 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 27th 2010 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/And the dancing black silhouettes were hired dancers... your point?]]>Mar 27th 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 27th 2010 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 27th 2010 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 27th 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/okay let me see...

mobile gamers? ...
intel gma 3150! ok negative!

ebook reader audience? ...
cheap led glare type display! also negative!

and for those "flash nerds" and farmville addicts? ...
windows 7 os + intel atom n450 + ddr"2" ram +gma 3150? ok that's an ultra negative.


so yeah, a great and sophisticated product -.-
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other than that i expect nothing, it was just a simple evaluation of the hardfacts so far :)]]>Mar 27th 2010 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
It'd be no more difficult to read an ebook on one of these than it would be on an iPad.]]>Mar 27th 2010 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
Not really. The problem is it is a heavier and thicker. If people don't have any problem on these two issues, they are fine using this to read ebooks.

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If that works well, I'll be issuing one to each worker as their new 'office companion' to complement their CAD workstations. Paper pads will no longer be ordered and we'll make a heavy push towards a more organized, digital/indexed and paper free workplace. The amount of paper a typical office churns through is atrocious.]]>Mar 28th 2010 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 27th 2010 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 27th 2010 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 27th 2010 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
I have never met a person with a tablet that has told me that they would rather just have a normal laptop. Although i don;t know a lot of people that are 100% satisfied with every aspect of their tablet, I don't know a one that is willing to make the switch back to a traditional laptop, they all just want improved tablets.]]>Mar 28th 2010 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
Vista Tablet features:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/tablet-pc.aspx

Win 7 tablet improvements over Vista:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/tablet-pc

To say its an afterthought makes it pretty obvious you've never used these features.]]>Mar 28th 2010 4:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 28th 2010 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/Mar 28th 2010 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-headed-to-us-in-april-for-499/
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