Asustek Unveils Tablet, to Take on Apple's iPad

WSJ ^ | MAY 31, 2010 | CHARMIAN KOK

[Bigh4u2]

“My main home machine is an Asus SK8V that refuses to die.”

You’re not using a big enough hammer!!

:0)

[Notary Sojac]

I have an Asus EEE which absolutely rocks. Best PC value for the dollar I have ever come across.

I'd give this tablet a serious look, but would only buy if it really has a UI that works for touch input.

The touch UI of the iPad is what really separates it from the rest of the market so far....although the iPad itself is so crippled in other ways that I would not consider buying one.

[Dead Corpse]

It's on it's third video card, 3rd or 4th generation of hard drives (currently 1.5TB), second sound card (although the onboard should still work), and is currently outfitted with Wireless 802.11N and a firewire 800 card. Started with 2GB of RAM, now has 8GB.

It's had a hacked copy of OSX 10.5 on it, multiple versions of Linux, Win98 and XP, and currently has Win 7 Pro 64-bit.

Gotta run out of driver support eventually. ;-)

[Myrddin]

I built a nice 64-bit Fedora 12 machine on an MSI P35 Platinum, q6600 CPU, 2 GB of PC8500 DDR2 RAM. It always had a funky boot up. In the end, the premium RAM failed. That was the final component I checked. The machine is now an Intel D41TY with a Celeron and 2 GB RAM. Single core, but it reliably launched the Linux off the disk. I want to see of the q6600 is still good. If so, I have to upgrade the BIOS firmware to put it back in service. I built it as a platform for running Erlang. The whole package runs much cooler than the q6600. It's a bunch slower though.

[antiRepublicrat]

It's about a year out. The copy machines are running a tad slow these days.

Tablets used to be fat, detachable or fold-back notebook screens, or look something like this:

Now all the upcoming tablet designs seem vaguely familiar....

[Bigh4u2]

You mean you’re barely using it!

lol!

[dangerdoc]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/26/asus-eee-pad-transformer-goes-on-sale-in-us-immediately-sells-o/#0_undefined,0_