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Asus Eee PC T91 preview - TechAmok
Asus Eee PC T91 preview - [hardware] 07:35 AM EST - Feb,22 2009 - post a comment  
The chaps over at
Bit-Tech take an early look at the Eee PC T91 tablet PC, the first major
departure from the traditional and comprehensive range of Asus Eee PC netbooks.
The first and most important feature on this Eee PC is its touch-sensitive
display (with the typical 1,024 x 600 native resolution) which is attached to
the rest of the machine via a 180-degree hinge. This hinge also rotates by 180
degrees and enables the T91 to transform itself from a traditional netbook into
what Asus claims is the smallest and slimmest tablet PC to date when the display
is folded back over the keyboard. Here's a taster:
Disappointingly, being a first-generation Eee Tablet PC, there's no
multi-touch functionality but this is a technology the company expects to
introduce further down the line - there were multi-touch enabled products
running Microsoft Surface demos shown during the Asus keynote at CES, but your
guess is as good as ours when it comes to expected availability dates for them.
We mention this because one concern there has always been for tablet PCs is the
software that runs on them. In some respects, the tablet PC is a technology with
a limited usage model and software has always been a weak point because the
operating systems typically deployed aren't designed with touch in mind. Asus
has chosen Windows XP on its Eee PC T91, which isn't really optimised all that
well for tablet use - we've got to wait until Windows 7 until we get optimised
support for touch from a Microsoft operating system out of the box.
The keyboard is one area of the device that Asus says is subject to change
before the launch. It currently features a standard keyboard very similar to the
Eee PC 901, but it will later be replaced with a chiclet-style keyboard similar
to the one on the Eee PC 1000HE, some of Sony's notebooks (like the TZ) or
Apple's new range of MacBooks. Just below the keyboard, there's an adequately
sized touch pad, which isn't as good as the touch pads on other Eee PCs, but
it's by no means unusable. Occasionally, we found that our movements weren't
registering properly and the buttons below required quite a firm press to
register. However, considering this is a pre-production sample, the problems we
encountered here could likely be early build quality issues that will be fixed
in the couple of months between now and release.
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