Items tagged with 'Asus'
Asus ConfirmsTegra 2-Based Eee Pad Slate PC
Asus has already confirmed that it will be entering the booming e-reader market later this year, but one device we haven't heard much about is the purported Eee Pad. In fact, we've only heard the Eee Pad referred to in rumor form, but all of that changes today. Asus' Corporate Vice President, Eric Chen, recently confirmed... Read More
ASUS Bundles Boingo With Latest Devices
Thanks to an agreement between Boingo and ASUS, ASUS Eee PC netbooks will now be preloaded with Boingo software, making it easy for users to locate and access more than 125,000 Boingo Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide. In addition, ASUS customers will get a discount of 50% on Boingo’s most popular Wi-Fi access services. Initially,... Read More
Asus DR-570 E-Reader To Bring OLED Display, Potentially Change The Market
It's too early to tell if this is the Eee Reader that was hinted about last autumn, but there's little doubt that Asus will be joining the quickly growing e-reader market in the near future. Amazon has started something that is showing no signs of slowing, with Plastic Logic, Spring Design and a host of other companies... Read More
CES 2010 Highlight Wrap-Up In Video and Pictures
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas gets the year going in the right direction for everyone in the high tech industry. It allows manufacturers to showcase their current products to thousands of media outlets, as well as give a sneak peak at impending launches all the while creating buzz and excitement among consumers. ... Read More
CES 2010 Highlight Wrap-Up In Pictures and Video
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas gets the year going in the right direction for everyone in the high tech industry. It allows manufacturers to showcase their current products to thousands of media outlets, as well as give a sneak peak at impending launches all the while creating buzz and excitement among consumers. ... Read More
Asus Extreme Design Contest Winner Showcase at CES 2010
In late October of last year we kicked off a pretty sweet contest and give-away with the folks at Asus, called the Xtreme Design Contest. For this contest Asus was looking to stir buzz and interest in the enthusiast do-it-yourself community for their new line of P7P55 Xtreme design series motherboards and of course... Read More
Asus Introduces New Motherboards Based On Intel H57/H55 Chipsets
With new processors comes new motherboards, and that's exactly what we're getting today from Asus. The company made famous by its Eee PC line has just unveiled new motherboards based on Intel's H57/H55 chipsets, which are designed to support the new Core i7, Core i5, Core i3 and Pentium CPUs. The mainboards include GPU... Read More
CES Showcase: Asus Announces Four New Laptops
It's CES time and that means a flurry new products will be hitting the streets soon. Today, we attended the Asus 2010 CES Event at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas where company chairman Jonney Shih revealed the company's latest products and technology, including the NX90 Bang & Olufsen notebook, the ROG G73Jh Gaming... Read More
CES Showcase: Asus Announces Four New Laptops
It's CES time and that means a flurry new products will be hitting the streets soon. Today, we attended the Asus 2010 CES Event at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas where company chairman Jonney Shih revealed the company's latest products and technology. Here's a quick preview of what was on display... ... Read More
Asus EAH5870 Radeon HD 5870 Review
Immediately upon its introduction, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 took the title for the fastest, single-GPU on the market. There was simply no other single-GPU that could touch it, not only in terms of performance, but in regard to features as well. And at the time, virtually all of AMD's strategic board partners were at the ready... Read More
Asus EAH5870 Radeon HD 5870 Review
Immediately upon its introduction, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 took the title for the fastest, single-GPU on the market. There was simply no other single-GPU that could touch it, not only in terms of performance, but in regard to features as well. And at the time, virtually all of AMD's strategic board partners were at the ready... Read More
Asus Gets Into Robot Vac Game With ECleaner
Asus, making vacuum cleaners? What on Earth is the world coming to? We know 2012 is supposed to bring about some fairly crazy happenings, but we aren't even out of 2009 yet! As the Roombas dominance in the robotic vac arena streaks towards its end, Asus--a mainstay in the consumer PC market--has decided to take a shot at... Read More
Asus X77 Laptop To Have Core i5, Mobility Radeon HD 5730
We recently had the chance to review an Asus gaming notebook with a mobile Core i7 within, and needless to say, we were rather blown away. If the trend continues, we're guessing the upcoming X77 will be just as impressive. Of course, Asus has yet to come forward and confirm that this machine is in fact a product it plans... Read More
Asus O!Play HDP-R1 Digital Media Player Review
You can add another product to this growing list of media devices that play content on your TV: the Asus O!Play HDP-R1 digital media player. The O!Play is a relatively small (1.9x7.1x4.9-inches), unassuming black box with rounded corners. It doesn’t have any onboard storage, but is designed to connect with media stored... Read More
Asus O!Play HDP-R1 Digital Media Player
Perhaps one the more significant defining digital attributes of the first decade of the the 21st Century could be the size of the ginormous digital media collections so many of us have amassed--media collections made of up a disparate assortment of video, photos, and audio files from a wide variety of sources.... Read More
NorhTec Gecko Surfboard: The $99 Full-Sized Keyboard With A PC Within
The Eee Keyboard has been on our minds since Asus first announced it months upon months ago. We've heard a few release dates, and we've watched the days go by as delays set in. As of now, the device seems to have slipped from most everyone's mind. We're sure it'll make a revived push for attention when Asus finally does... Read More
Asus Eee PC1005PE, Atom N450 Pinetrail Platform Launch
If you consider Intel's design execution over the past 12 months or so, you'd have to admit it's nothing short of impressive. Not only did we see the launch of a new desktop chip with the Core i7, but Intel then ramped up clock speeds, introduced lower cost mainstream variants of the platform, and then drove that technology... Read More
Asus Eee PC1005PE, Atom N450 Pinetrail Launch
If you consider Intel's design execution over the past 12 months or so, you'd have to admit it's nothing short of impressive. Not only did we see the launch of a new desktop chip with the Core i7, but Intel then ramped up clock speeds, introduced lower-cost mainstream variants of the platform, and then drove that... Read More
Asus Ion-Powered Eee PC 1201N Review
The proliferation of NVIDIA's Ion GPU has been a long time coming. We've been talking about its merits for the better part of this year, but only recently has it been able to find its way into more than a handful of mainstream, shipping netbooks. We recently had a look at HP's Mini 311 with Windows 7 Home Premium, and while... Read More
Evaluating Extended Warranties and the Disparity in Netbook/Notebook Failure Rates
Last month, SquareTrade—a company in the business of selling extended warranties directly to consumers online, with what it claims are better prices and coverage plans than store-bought options—released a report on netbook and notebook failure rates. Much of the discussion the report generated focused on the company's estimated... Read More
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