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ASUS Eee PC 1018P netbook hits FCC
One of ASUS’ other trio of 10-inch Eee PC netbooks, the 1018P has hit the FCC. We’ve seen the 1015P land at the FCC previously (and product pages up at ASUS) so that just leaves the 1016P.
These netbooks should be going on sale very soon. I’ve not yet seen them show up in online listings just yet though.
ASUS Eee PC 1201PN Netbook Doesn’t Have Nvidia Optimus?
Hardware Zone has just confirmed this and have new info: The ASUS Eee PC 1201PN netbook will come with various processors including the D410, N450 and D510 but there will be no Nvidia Optimus because they want to get a next gen ION notebook on to the market quickly. Windows 7 Starter based netbooks will not have Optimus on board. An Optimus loaded model of the 1201PN will be released towards the end of the year. I also got confirmation from Notebook Italia below.
Could the upcoming ASUS Eee PC 1201PN powered by an Intel Atom N450 processor and the next generation ION not actually have Nvidia Optimus, as we’ve been lead to believe up until now? Blogeee.net has just heard from Nvidia France that the 1201PN will not have Nvidia Optimus built in, but it no doubt has the 16-core next generation ION chip. They say “It’s a global error”. Pretty massive error, if it’s actually true. Pretty much everywhere the new ION is touted with Nvidia Optimus (Nvidia’s ION page). Notebook Italia just sent me this quote from an Nvidia official: “Asus decided to use the same motherboard without Optimus to go to market and launch Optimus later with the same design plus dual core CPU” refering to the 1215N.
That 1201PN sample that was benchmarked over at Notebookcheck the other day never came with Nvidia Optimus either.
Could this be the reason for the delay until May / June? Will we get Nvidia Optimus by then?
ASUS EeeKeyboard Unboxing Video
We’ve seen the ASUS EeeKeyboard go up for preorder yesterday and we’ve seen numerous hands on videos including yesterday’s latest walkthrough and today we get to experience an unboxing of the new Eee PC addition.
The UWB dongle and the larger receiver is included, as well as the power cable for running the receiver. There’s a HDMI cable included too.
It’s mentioned that the 16GB SSD model costs $549 and the 32GB SSD model costs $599 yet Amazon has the lower end model for $599. Price mixup?
ASUS Eee PC T101MT Netbook Disassembled
phertiker, Eee User forum member and brand new ASUS Eee PC T101MT owner, wanting to upgrade from a standard platter drive to a solid state drive went ahead and disassembled his new toy - like with most netbooks this is the only option if you want to upgrade the hard drive. It was a “huge pain in the butt” and like all Eee PCs you have to void your warranty in the process as the warranty seal covers one of the screws underneath the keyboard. He’s written up details of how he’s taken his apart in the link.
ExpressGate Against Windows 7 On ASUS Eee PC T101MT Netbook
The folks at Sammy Production have pitted two ASUS Eee PC T101MT tablet netbooks against each other. One sporting ExpressGate - ASUS’s rebranded “instant on” OS and the other with Windows 7. Express Gate loads up much quicker than Windows 7. The ExpressGate T101MT was ready to browse to just in just over 35 seconds while the Windows 7 T101MT took about about 1:30 seconds.
Express Gate has come a long way since the earlier versions. It looks and feels much nicer. Unfortunately I could not test out the most recent version I had on the ASUS UL20A as there seemed to be some kind of hardware issue with the Wi-Fi card.
