The ASUS Eee S101 is flying up the UMPCPortal charts right now and currently the 6th most viewed product in the database. Maybe it’s because it’s a very viewable product? I mean, lovely! Gorgeous even!
UMPCFever have just posted the English version of theirS101 unboxing photos and comments.
Its lighter and smaller than a Mac Book Air. It looks just as good and costs about half the price. Of course, that isn’t going to sway anyone with an Apple fetish but I bet the people you see in the coffee shop with the S101 will have a wider smile than the MBA owners. Assuming they can prize out those silly faux diamond from the hinges that is!
October 19th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Yeah there is no doubt that its a great looking machine and those pics really do it justice. Im more interested in the black graphite model to be honest but yeah the glossy brown is pretty nice too. This is the only thing that would make me sell my Wind, but I think I’ll wait for Dual-Core.
UMPCFever says,
“Asus said peripherals should be located at the rear part of the netbook. Great idea.”
Can someone explain to me why the hell this is a good (nie great) idea? For me it would just be plain inconvenient, especially when trying to orientate a VGA plug which are easy to get upside down. And serious photographers are likely going to be docking their machines to a larger screen and having to rotate the machine to get to the card slot is far from a great idea.
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October 19th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
my guess is that was the best their engineers could do so Asus decided to “spin” it to make it sound like a feature.
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October 19th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Looks good, but…
0.3 megapix camera, ONLY?
16Gbs SSD, ONLY?
It´s cost U$S700,-…
Give me a break!
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October 20th, 2008 at 2:15 am
0.3 megapixel is good enough for webcam use, due to the internet speed.
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October 20th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Right. My smile is as wide as it can get tho
And yes…apple fetish is a terrible thing..
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October 21st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I’d gladly trade the diamonds on the side for a larger SSD drive
I also expected at least a 1.3mpix cam in this laptop, seeing it does not really add to the manufacturing price, and I had hoped it used Dual DDR2 SoDimm ram.
This device sounds nice once they’ve upped the resolution, and maybe equipped it with a more powerful (not yet existing) processor.
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