First Look At the Asus EeePad Specs, Pics

[martin0642]

[citation][nom]70camaross396[/nom]I like the specs, with the exception of the SSD and camera. A 32GB SSD is a little small by they time you install widows 7, and add Office 2007 or 2010 to make it usefull you are very close to the limits of a 32GB SDD. they should make the base model a 64GB drive and the upgraded version a 128GB. that would allow you to store a few movies, MP3's or Ebooks on it with out filling up the drive.as for the camera, .3 MP? WTF? if they can put an 8MP camera in a cell phone at least put a 3-5MP camera in the "EEEpad".also the specs don't list the video chipset. I dont want to play crysis on it. but it sould be at least capable of 1080p video playback, and most intigrated chipsets suck at this. My only other request would be a gigabit ethernet port or a docking staion with a gigbit port to make transfering large files of videos to it faster. granted you can do this with wireless or usb thumb drives. but gigabit ethernet is much faster.[/citation]

Office on your tablet? A huge thick Ethernet jack on my slim tablet? It's not a PC, and it's not meant to be one. You don't load all your media on it, you stream it. It's like people still don't know what tablets are designed to do.

I agree the camera is lame, but basically all you need on this is the OS, browser, and VLC, and some kind of app marketplace to capitalize on all the great apps written for Android/iPhone platforms. The software is primarily what defines the use-case of the device, with hardware just making the software more diverse and capable.

 

[micky_lund]

[citation][nom]bob_white[/nom]Wow! Core 2 duo, 2GB DD2 Memory, SSD, windows 7Its better than the computer im typing on![/citation]
lol...better than the addition of 2 of the computers at home the rents are using.

 

[tayb]

Not interested unless they manage to crank 9 hours battery life from this thing and Windows 7 suddenly becomes a touch friendly operating system. I won't hold my breath for either of those so I'll continue to pass on the "tablet" craze.

I still think the sweet spot for these "in between" devices is slower hardware than this with a more touch-friendly OS from the Linux community, Android, or whatever. In these types of devices I value portability and battery life over productivity because I'm honestly not going to be doing much on these except for playing. Knock the iPad (I do) but at least I can play on it for 9 hours without a recharge.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]Abrahm[/nom]I'm a bit disappointed. I would rather see Android than Windows 7 to be honest.[/citation]
Don't buy it then.
It's good to have choice, now there are tablets for Apple, Android and Windows fans.
It doesn't matter who's OS is supposedly the best, never forget the golden rule of sales, always give the customer what they want.

 

[Drag0nR1der]

Personally I think I'd take a long hard look at my life if I ever felt the need to spend 9 hours looking at content on a tablet.

I'd rather sacrifice some battery life for the ability to actually use the thing creatively during thetime I do spend on it.

Basically you can charge the thing each night, so your saying you wan't to spend 9 hours each day viewing/playing content, most peopel would consider that the extreme end of addiction.

 

[kartu]

[citation][nom]blacksins[/nom]0.3 megapixel webcam?? am i in 1997 ??[/citation]
You mean, after all these years most customers do not suspect that with given optics it makes no sense whatsoever to have so many "gigashpixels"?

 

[Parrdacc]

[citation][nom]blacksins[/nom]0.3 megapixel webcam?? am i in 1997 ??[/citation]

I believe that was a typo. At least I hope so. I seriously doubt it is 0.3 more like it is supposed to read at least 3.0 megapixel.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]Parrdacc[/nom]I believe that was a typo. At least I hope so. I seriously doubt it is 0.3 more like it is supposed to read at least 3.0 megapixel.[/citation]
0.3mp is 640x480
More likely the typo is 1.3mp
As that would equate to 1280x1024
It's not going to be 3mp either because full HD 1920x1080, and that's a smidgen over 2mp

 

[blacksins]

I believe that was a typo. At least I hope so. I seriously doubt it is 0.3 more like it is supposed to read at least 3.0 megapixel.

yeah i thought about that too..