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Updated Eee PC 901 to Ship in October with Built-in 3G

In a stunning move, the folks at Asus appear to be adding a fairly significant feature to one of their netbooks—built-in 3.75G HSUPA connectivity to the Atom-powered 8.9″ Eee PC 901—without spinning off another 5 different model designations. The 3.75G chip will be in all 901s that ship from October onward.Claiming 7.2 Mbps down/2 Mbps … Continued

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Hands On: Asus’s AiGuru SV1 Grandma-Friendly Skype Videophone

OK guys, is it out yet or isn’t it? This morning, official word of Asus’s new AiGuru SV1, a standalone (no PC required) Skype videophone was released and then retracted—but here we are tonight at a media event in NYC and what do we see sitting on Skype’s table? Not sure what the nervousness is … Continued

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Asus Helps Your Pirating Including Software Cracker for Free

Asus-makers of inexpensive Eeeverything-is now shipping illegal cracking software to make your computing life even cheaper. According to UK publication PC Pro, not only they have accidentally included a piracy tool with their recovery DVD, but they have also put several confidential documents and source code inside. So nice of them. A PC Pro reader … Continued

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Asus Launches AiGuru SV1, World’s First Skype-Certified Videophone

Update: Asus tells us that the product wasn’t supposed to be announced just yet. They’re still tweaking the unit, so the specs listed below aren’t the final specs. What we do know is that this device is coming and it is going to be something similar to this, but minor details will probably be changed. … Continued

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Asus’ N10 Non-Eee UMPC Gets Some Hands-On Action, More Specs

While information has been arriving in fits and starts on Asus’ new N10 non-Eee ultra-portable, over at Laptopmag they got a teeny hands-on view of the PC. The 10-inch machine (which Asus was keen to stress as a notebook not a netbook) is due to come in N10E and N10J versions, with the main differences … Continued

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Full, Reliable Instructions to Load OSX on Eee PC

We’ve seen demos where clever ubertechie folk run OSX on the Eee PC, but in case you wanted to do it yourself, Wired has published a complete wiki detailing the installation process. It’s still not a one and done installation—plan to get your hands a little digitally dirty—but at least you won’t be digging through … Continued

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Asus Working on Omnia-Rivaling Smartphone, Says Rumor

Leaked photos of an Asus smartphone have hit the intertubes, and make it look like the maker of the Eee PC has the Samsung Omnia in its sights. The photos of the Glaxy7 show a slim candybar cellphone that appears to be touchscreen-only—it looks too slim for a slide-out keypad—with a 5-megapixel auto-focus cam, front … Continued

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Eee PC 1000H Price Drops Even Lower; $450 on Amazon, $360 on MWave

In case Asus’ $100 price drop in July just wasn’t enough to make up your mind on whether to spring for a new Eee PC 1000H, the mini-marvel’s gotten even cheaper now. Amazon is selling an 80GB, XP-equipped 1000H for just $450. Mwave also has several in stock for either $450 (while supplies last) or, … Continued

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Food Network’s Alton Brown Talks to Giz: Caribbean Adventuring With a Garmin, an iPhone and a Shload of Cameras

Tomorrow night at 10PM, Food Network kicks off Alton Brown’s latest TV show, Feasting on Waves, where the Mensa-smart kitchen geek and his crew hop into two 50-foot catamarans and sail around 15 different Caribbean islands in search of quality cuisine, shooting and editing the hi-def episodes right there on the boats. It turns out, … Continued

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Asus N10, An Eee with Some Oomph

While Asus has gone a little Netbook-nuts, their recently leaked N10 is actually a promising revision on the genre dominated by clones. The 1.6Ghz Atom, 10.2″ screen and 2GB of RAM—that’s all pretty standard stuff. But three things other than its draft n Wi-Fi and face/thumb recognition have us interested in the N10. First, it’s … Continued

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Asus F6 Comes With Webcam, 13-inch Screen, Eau de Asus

Looks like Asus is sniffing out the next big thing now that it’s found heaps of success with its EeePC concept, and has decided that what the world really needs is a notebook that can function both as a mid-range computer and an Air Wick. The Asus F6 boasts a 13.3 inch screen, an integrated … Continued

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Older Asus Eee PC Batteries Are Incompatible With 900A

There’s a slight issue for Asus Eee PC owners who want to use their older batteries with the Atom-based Eee PC 900A revealed earlier this month-they won’t work. That’s because the tiny laptop uses a different connector (4400mAh, cheap) than its predecessors the 701 and 900. There’s some good news, however, as jkkmobile notes the … Continued

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Asus’s Pulse-Sensing Vit W1 Wireless Laser Mouse Reports Your Heart Rate To Your PC

The Asus pulse mouse is just what it sounds like: A mouse that measures your pulse as you work at your computer. It sends the information via its wireless connection to software running on your PC that keeps track of your heart rate and displays it graphically. It’s not meant for everyone, but anyone using … Continued

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Asus’ Ultimate Eee PC S101 Will Have 64GB SSD, $899 Price Tag

The shiny brown machine in the photo there is apparently the top-of-the-range Eee PC S101 that was shown in Asus’ leaked presentation last month. It looks just a little bigger than the white 901 model next to it, and it will be about 0.87-inches deep, have a 10.1-inch LED-lit LCD, and have an Intel Atom … Continued

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Asus R710 GPS with Head-Up Display Demoed on Video

This is some video of Asus’ swanky new GPS model that projects data onto your windshield, saving you from distracting yourself from the road by peering at a device screen. So will the R710 make you feel like you’re flying a fighter aircraft with glitzy HUD graphics? No, not really, as it projects just some … Continued

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SplashTop Instant-On Linux OS Gets Hacked to Do More Tricks

Splashtop, the instant-on Linux mini-OS found embedded in many Asus motherboards as well as the Voodoo Envy 133, has been hacked to allow installation of additional apps, access to the computer’s main file system, and more. Initial impressions of the Envy have noted that Splashtop can go from off to surfing in 15 seconds with … Continued

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Buffalo’s 32GB and 64GB SSDs For Eee PC Get Launch Date, Price

Asus’s EeePC 901 has already proved itself very hackable but Buffalo’s newest product won’t require much modding: 32GB or 64GB replacement SSD’s. Not much more to say, apart from the obvious: more storage, more impact resilient, longer battery life. The best bit? The 32GB SHD-EP9M32G is a mere $156, and the 64GB SHD-EP9M64G an equally … Continued

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Eee PC’s to Get “Whole Day” Batteries, Says Rumor

Not content with muddying-up the waters of the Eee brand, Asustek is apparently keen to “push out software and hardware upgrades every month to fill gaps in the netbook market.” Though that sounds like a bad idea, at least one benefit may come of it: according to Digitimes, one of the upcoming products will be … Continued

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ASUS Continues Flood of Eee-Branded Gear With External HD, Optical Drive and 3G Card

Still not content with keeping the Eee name only on their successful (but ballooning) line of netbooks, this unofficial but legit-looking crew of peripherals joins the Eee Box, Eee TV, Eee Monitor and Eee Enema (spot the outlier!) in further desecrating the brand. Included is an external hard disk with a fold-out USB connector, an … Continued

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Dealzmodo: $19 HDMI Graphics Card

If you’ve been scouting for components to build a budget media center PC, this Asus ATI Radeon HD3450 is going for just $19 after a $10 mail-in rebate. (It usually runs about $50.) While not a gaming powerhouse, the card is DirectX 10.1-compatible, HDCP-compliant, capable of 1920×1200 resolution and happens to be a “champ with … Continued