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Asus Takes Another Stab at Revolutionizing Netbook Market

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the betting-on-the-design-team dept.

Perhaps most well known for their netbook innovations with the Eee PC, Asus is at it again with their latest rollout at CeBIT Germany. The "Waveface Light," a new concept laptop, can be used as a conventional laptop or converted to a tablet by removing the keyboard and opening it to a completely flat position. Sounds like either a stroke of genius or a "small widget broke and now it's worthless" design issue.

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  1. You can't really revolutionise the netbook market by CdBee · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anything sufficiently different to be radical (in either a good or bad way) won't be considered a netbook.

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  2. Just remove the pc! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The "Waveface Light," a new concept laptop can be used as a conventional laptop or converted to a tablet by removing the pc and opening it to a completely flat position.

    run that by me again

    1. Re:Just remove the pc! by Haxamanish · · Score: 4, Informative

      TFA reads: remove the keyboard.
      From the pictures it even seems the screen can be rolled up when the keyboard has been removed.

  3. Re:Interesting... by sammyF70 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First it will run with a completely user-unfriendly Linux distribution (Linpus, I'm looking at you!), then people will complain about it, Asus will increase the specs and the price massively and will only sell the Win7 edition. The few who bought the original edition will tell everybody that they tried Linux and that it's complete crap without trying some *real* distro, and websites around the world will laud the new win7 edition as much better, and a proof that Linux is not fit for the desktop. Apple will then show off their new product (the iBalls) which will have less feature than anything else, will be so locked it won't be of any use whatsoever, but will have shiny glossy metal, and everyone will announce the death of the Wave Light Devices.

    been there, done that

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  4. Re:Indeed. by qoncept · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right now an engineer at Intel is slapping his forehead and saying, out loud, "Why didn't I think of that? We should have been trying to make faster chips that use less power all along!"

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  5. It is flexible. Bendable to be precise. by denzacar · · Score: 3, Informative

    See the videos below:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTmzBsx6p_I

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceHb98Ri4BE

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  6. Re:Interesting... by Nemyst · · Score: 4, Informative

    The original EEE PC ran Xandros, which was arguably a very bad decision...