Asustek executive Samson Hu has confirmed his company's plans to release a touchscreen Eee PC variant for sale by Q1 of 2009. This means that we could be tapping the display on an Eee PC, legitimately no less, by the first quarter of next year. Hu also stated that Intel Atom dual core processors will start making an appearance in their products as soon as they can get their teeny tiny little hands on them. What's unclear is whether the touchscreen Eee PC will be strictly a Tablet PC-based device or if it will take on a convertible format like the Gigabyte subnotebooks. I expect the touchscreen Eee PCs to be on display at CES 2009 in Las Vegas.