Archive for the 'Asus' Category

Walt Disney’s netbook for children - the Disney Netpal - will start selling in late July, at Toys “R” Us stores and Amazon.com, USA Today reports.

The Netpal is produced by Asustek and features an 8.9-inch display, a 16GB solid state drive or an optional 160GB hard drive, WiFi connection, and Windows XP OS with a custom Disney interface.

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Asustek has revealed details of the Asus Eee PC 1005HA netbook, featuring company’s new Seashell design.

The Eee PC 1005HA sports a 10.1-inch LED backlight 1024×600 display, the Intel Atom N270 or N280 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive with Windows XP Home or GNU Linux preloaded, a 3- or 6-cell battery for “up to 10.5 hours” of run time, and a built-in 0.3MP or 1.3MP web camera.

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The Asus K40IN-A1, Asustek’s notebook that belongs to the new K Series, is now available in the US.

The 14-inch laptop features the Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 CPU at 2GHz and the GeForce G102M 512MB dedicated video card, which is “NVIDIA’s lowest power GPU with dedicated frame buffer”. Other core components of the Asus K40IN-A1 are 4GB of DDR2 memory, a 320GB hard drive, and a DVD burner.

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Asustek has announced this week the Asus Eee PC Seashell, a newly designed netbook series.

The first Seashell model is the 2.4-pound 1-inch thick Eee PC 1008HA, featuring a 10″ LED-backlit display at 1024×600, the Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz CPU, 1GB of DDR2 memory, a 160GB hard drive, a 6-cell (non user-replaceable) battery for 6 hours of run time, and Windows XP Home OS.

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Asustek has announced the Asus P30A, the first model in the P30 13.3-inch business notebook series.

Measuring 1-inch in profile and weighing around 3.3 pounds, the P30A includes the Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 processor at 1.4GHz, up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, up to 320GB of hard drive storage, and a DVD burner. There’s no info on the GPU in the press release.

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Asustek has released details of the ASUS P80 business laptop, featuring a 14-inch display and Intel’s new Anti-Theft technology.

The ASUS P80 comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo or Pentium CPU, up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, up to 320GB of hard drive space, and a DVD burner. The P80A and P80Q models include the Intel GMA X4500MHD (with HD decoder) and X4500M integrated graphics respectively, whereas the P80Vc has the NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS 512MB dedicated GPU.

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The Asus F50SV-X1, a 16-inch notebook with the latest NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M video card, is now available in the US through Newegg.

Along with the GT 120M dedicated GPU that includes 1GB of video memory and 32 processing cores, the F50SV-X1 comes with the Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 processor at 2GHz, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive with Windows Vista Home Premium installed, and a DVD burner. Laptop’s display resolution is 1366 x 768.

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Asustek has silently launched the Asus Eee PC 1002H netbook, featuring a 10-inch 1024×600 LED backlight display and Intel’s new Atom N280 CPU at 1.66GHz.

The 2.65-pound Eee PC 1002H includes 1GB of DDR2 memory, a 160GB hard drive with Windows XP Home preloaded, and a 5-hour battery.

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Asustek has announced the ASUS G71Gx gaming laptop with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M, the “world’s fastest notebook graphics processor”.

The 17-inch G71Gx also has three SO-DIMM slots for up to 12GB of DDR2 800MHz memory, up to 1TB of storage space using two 500GB hard drives, Blu-ray support, and four built-in Altec Lansing speakers. The display resolution is 1920×1200.

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Asustek has announced the newly designed ASUS U and UX Series laptops, featuring “contemporary styling and effortless elegance”.

The ASUS U has a 15.6-inch LED backlit display, Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor, the NVIDIA GeForce G 105M 512MB dedicated video card, up to 500GB of hard drive space and Altec Lansing speakers. The laptop has illuminated keyboard and touchpad.

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Asustek (Asus) has unveiled a dual panel notebook concept at 2009 CeBIT in Hannover, Germany.

The company explains that the dual panel concept offers a “flexible working space in which users can adapt to suit their prevailing usage scenarios, for example adjusting the size of the virtual touchpad and keyboard”.

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Asustek introduced yesterday the Asus K Series, a “smart choice of notebooks designed to provide users with no-frills day-to-day computing and steadfast reliability”.

The Asus K laptops feature the proprietary ASUS Super Hybrid Engine (SHE) for better energy efficiency. The K Series delivers “up to 5 hours of non-stop computing on a 6-cell battery”.

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Asustek has announced the Asus Lamborghini VX5, a luxury 16-inch laptop equipped with “the world’s largest density Solid State Drive standing at 1TB”.

Along with the 1TB SSD, the Lamborghini VX5 features an Intel Core 2 Quad processor, 4GB of RAM, the NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M 1GB video card, a Blu-ray combo optical drive, and TwinTurbo technology that users can utilize to accelerate system’s performance via a speed key.

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Asustek’s new entertainment laptop PC - the 18.4-inch ASUS W90 - is now available in the United States.

The first offered model is the ASUS W90Vp-X1. Along with the 1920 x 1200 widescreen display, the desktop replacement notebook features the Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 processor at 2.80GHz, the high-end ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 1GB dual video card for gaming, three SO-DIMM slots populated with 6GB of DDR2 memory, a 320GB 7,200rpm hard drive, and a DVD burner. The W90 is based on the Intel X38 chipset, designed for use in desktop PCs.

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The Asus Eee PC T91 is Asustek’s first convertible netbook computer.

The upcoming T91 mini-tablet features an 8.9-inch touch-screen display with a 1,024×600 resolution and LED backlight, the Intel Atom Z520 1.33GHz processor, US15W chipset, 1GB of DDR2 memory, a 32GB solid state drive with Windows XP Home pre-loaded, an optional internal TV tuner, and a built-in web camera.

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