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Asustek Unveils Tablet, to Take on Apple's iPad
WSJ ^
| MAY 31, 2010
| CHARMIAN KOK
Posted on 06/01/2010 12:55:01 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
I would like to know if it has any card slots (especially to make use of ReadyBoost) and if it has an HDMI port.
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:00:11 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: SmokingJoe
Hmmm. I have an Asus Laptop and love it. This company puts out good products. However, to compete, they will need other manufacturers and Microsoft to jump on board.
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:00:28 PM PDT
by
Local Man
(They make good Laptops . . .)
To: SmokingJoe
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:00:40 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: Local Man
According to the article, it will use Win7.
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:02:13 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: SmokingJoe
I had an Asus PC for about three months. It was in for repairs twice. The darn on/off button had a design flaw and would get hung up inside the PC tower.
I got a credit from Best Buy, dumped it and went back to Dell.
If I feel the urge someday to buy a tablet, I’ll get an ipad.
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:02:23 PM PDT
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-3-10!)
To: SmokingJoe
Yeah, it might even be better, but will it be as tragically hip?
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:02:29 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(If someone calls me a racist I tell them, "you're just saying that because I'm white.")
To: SmokingJoe
Asus makes good motherboards and video cards.
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:03:10 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: SmokingJoe
Very, very, very original design.
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:03:29 PM PDT
by
MediaMole
To: Army Air Corps
It doesn’t say in the WSJ article.
What it does say though is talk about the price, and another tabet from MSI:
“Separately, Micro-Star International Co., a little-known Taiwanese company that mainly makes PC motherboards, unveiled at Computex a new tablet model for Windows 7 that will sell for $499 starting in the fourth quarter. The device, called the Wind Pad, has Wi-Fi and 3G wireless capability, and uses Intel Corp.’s Atom processor. Micro-Star International, known as MSI, is also planning a tablet based on Android that will sell for the same price, a spokeswoman said.
Asustek executives have said they were also working on an Android tablet, but they made no mention of that on Monday.
Jessie Lee, an Asustek spokeswoman, said there will be Eee Pad models with 10-inch and 12-inch screen sizes, which will sell for between $399 and $449.”
To: jessduntno
Who knows. I have never really cared about what was hip.
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:05:51 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: jessduntno
how could anything be? the iPad is so hip it even smokes cigarettes and reads Sartre.
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:06:14 PM PDT
by
Thurston_Howell_III
(Ahoy polloi... where did you come from, a scotch ad?)
To: SmokingJoe
I have a Asus netbook, which when I ordered it was hands down the best alue and features available.
Expect them to do it well, correcting and improving very rapidly.
If Asus was building the Chevy Volt it would have been out by now.
To: jessduntno
Yeah, it might even be better, but will it be as tragically hip?
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:06:37 PM PDT
by
Wyatt's Torch
(I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
To: jessduntno
Yeah, it might even be better, but will it be as tragically hip? Are you kidding?
No one’s products can be as hip as Apple’s. :)
To: Thurston_Howell_III
how could anything be? the iPad is so hip it even smokes cigarettes and reads Sartre.”
Oooooooo...Sartre...I love her.
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:07:00 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(If someone calls me a racist I tell them, "you're just saying that because I'm white.")
To: Thurston_Howell_III
But does it smoke Gitanes or Gauloises?
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:07:32 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
“Who knows. I have never really cared about what was hip.”
Apple...far beyond the merely hip. It’s....painfully artisan...
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:09:08 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(If someone calls me a racist I tell them, "you're just saying that because I'm white.")
To: SmokingJoe
It looks like it has a USB port which Ipad doesn’t.
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:09:22 PM PDT
by
marron
To: Myrddin
My main home machine is an Asus SK8V that refuses to die.
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posted on
06/01/2010 1:17:47 PM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(III, Alarm and Muster)
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