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Asus Joins Tablet PC Race

Posted by Soulskill on from the aiming-for-a-piece-of-the-apple-pie dept.

WrongSizeGlass writes "Reuters is reporting that netbook pioneer Asustek Computer Inc. has become the latest technology company to jump on the tablet PC bandwagon. The device will be called the Eee Pad, will run on Intel or ARM chips, and use Microsoft's Windows operating system. 'The Eee Pad can display Adobe Flash for the full web experience, has a USB port and a camera,' Asus Chairman Jonney Shih said. Asus did not release pricing details or a potential release date, and did not provide further details on the format or a launch date for the new app store."

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  1. "Flash" by nemasu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it just me or does it seem ridiculous that "our device X supports flash" is becoming a major selling point??

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  2. The browser is Opera by hkmwbz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was about to say "surprisingly", but then realized that it isn't really that surprising after all: The Eee Pad seems to use Opera as its browser.

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  3. Re:The fanboys will scream by man_of_mr_e · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not a fanboy, but that's not exactly true. Yes, most of their devices do have a lot of stock components, however apple does do a lot of custom ASIC's in their products and supposed the new CPU is an apple modified version of teh ARM Cortex... so they do do their own hardware as well.

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