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| Author | Hugo Jobling |
| Published | 7th Aug 2008 |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersAs you might imagine Asus' President, Jerry Shen, gets to play with all the company's latest and greatest kit. Unsurprisingly, then, it was Shen who was on hand in Taiwan to show off a prototype to a bunch of journalists- apparently paying homage to the Macbook Air's pull-the-laptop-out-of-an-envelope adverts by doing the same with the Eee PC 'Ultimate' S101.
Supposedly these systems will actually scrap the Eee name, although what the system will be called, that being the case, isn't made clear. If the prototype's styling, specifically the brown colour, is actually planned for the retail models we can't see it helping shift systems. Of course the S101's specs go some way to compensate.
As before a 1.6GHz Atom processor sits at the netbook's heart, but on these Ultimate systems is backed up by either a 32GB or 64GB of solid state storage. It seems reasonable to suspect that Buffalo has a hand in supplying those modules.
Systems are expected to become available from mid-September and pricing is apparently set to be $699 (~£350) and $899 (~£450) for the 32GB and 64GB versions respectively.
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Andrew Violet said on 7th August 2008
ilovethemonkeyhead said on 7th August 2008
at those predicted prices? you might as well just fork out for a proper laptop...
Hugo said on 7th August 2008
Andrew: Thanks, I did that trying to correct from 63!! Hopefully it will change to 64, not 61 this time...
Monkey: Possibly, but the size and battery life of a £400-... more
DontShootTheMessenger said on 8th August 2008
Hugo - your points are good however should small size and long battery be the benchmarks for a 'good' laptop (In which case my mobile phone with slide out QWERTY keyboard... more
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typo 62gb instead of 64gb at the end