well, with the competition pressing hard towards the 12inchers, ASUS can't afford to stand by. so, expect another 1695 Eee PC models until Christmas.

and the 15.6" netbook is coming in July, horay! i hope, you guys realize how ridiculously small these pathetic 10" displays are, you need bigger and better

exactly, affordable and solid, 11.6" doesnt sound like a bad size to me however.

Congratulations, ASUS.  You've invented the laptop.  Think someone might have got there before you, though...

I have an old 11.3" laptop here - picked it up when it was thrown out from work years ago.  Called a "HiNote VP" or something.  Really old, 1GB HDD and barely capable of running Windows 98SE.  It was a nice little machine... before ASUS invented the eeepc.

It's sad to see Asus being so active in losing their way with netbooks when they were once so active in leading the way with netbooks.  The company that would be king, now desperate to be just one of the followers.

And just in time for christmas next year, we'll get the 22" 'netbooks' with optical drives, a full range of ports and 30 minutes of battery life...

...I'll just stick my 4G in my pocket and go somewhere quiet.

All that extra keyboard and screen estate got to be powered, and carried. Besides you can hold, walk and type simultaneously with an 8,9" & <1kg. Models like this will proberbly suck at that.

So any suggestions on manufacturers that still produce <9" <1kg laptops?

I'm open to other manufacturers aswell.. No reason to stick with Asus given their track record.

It sure is pretty to look at..

i feel very comfortable with my 1000HE... i think that 10" is perfect, others are too small, others are too expensive, others last too few and others are too heavy (compared to the wheight of the actuall netbooks).

as long as they keep the battery hours, the price and the weight everything will be fine.

ASUS has lost the innovative drive somehow ... Dell already has a 20" netbook on offer:



as seen in the 2008 movie 'Get Smart'

I've seen a 20" HP "Laptop" at the store once. Absurd, completely absurd. Not portable at all. Looked like the Dell pictured above. Ditto 18" laptops.

Recently on a flight someone hauled out their 18" laptop to charge their USB phone. They couldn't even open the screen all the way. The flight attendant made a passing comment to him about the Macbook air.

I guess she didn't see my Eee which was actually out at the time.

I see nothing wrong with offering a product at this size, especially if it is relatively inexpensive. There is a demand. A number of 12" Powerbook users miss that form factor.

What I don't want to see is larger units released at the expense of smaller units.

Too bad no one else has took on the everun note in the bottom end. It is pocketable, but everyone talks about the stupid overpriced Sony Vaio P being pocketable.

it looks nice but it will probably be very expensive.

While a reasonable evolution of design to match upmarket trends, I for one hope that there will be new 9 or 10" models in the pipeline.

Besides the T91 and T101H which will probably be prohibitively expensive and with a worse processor to boot. Would the existing 9s and 10s be the last bastion of practicality?

I would agree that my existing 10" "upgrade" made the thing less portable (but more comfortable for extended use), adding 2 inches would make the machine have the same status as a typical laptop computer. Which is translated to "small portable desktop". As for design, the 12 incher looks too much like a Dell or HP. I much prefer the rugged simplicity of the 701 and the following 9s and 10s which are simply, upscaled on the same pattern.

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