“The latest: Asustek Computer’s Eee Pad, which the company unveiled at a press conference on Monday ahead of the Computex trade show in Taiwan,” Kok reports. “The Eee Pad is a touchscreen device that will run on Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system and will sell for between $399 and $449.”
“It will be available in a 10-inch and a 12-inch model and has some interesting differences with other tablet PCs launched by others,” Kok reports. “Unlike Apple’s iPad, it will support Adobe Flash, which is seen as an important feature for tablets, as many websites require Flash to view them.”
MacDailyNews Take: Who sees Adobe Flash as “an important feature for tablets?” Adobe, makers of portable batteries and chargers, also-rans trying to pimp fake iPads, and gullible reporters that’s who.
Kok continues, “The 12-inch Eee Pad model, which will also feature the full Windows 7 Home Premium software, is geared more towards users who still want to create content on their tablets, Asustek Chairman Jonney Shih said at a press conference Monday.”
MacDailyNews Take: Why not just proclaim “I don’t get it,” Johnny? It’d be a lot easier and cheaper for your company.
Kok continues, “Asustek says it also plans to launch its own app store, which it is developing with Intel. But details about this remain scant so far, and it hasn’t announced any agreements with other firms to offer e-books or other multimedia on its app store.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The answer to the headline is: “What are you, crazy?!”
Did I hear Wee Wee Pad?
Apple better come out with mac ox x ipad or they will loose big time. People want open devices. Apple is neglecting mac for a limited expensive device
eee – its a netbook without XP and without a keyboard – why???
the same questions that everybody had when the iPad came out should now be applied here – funny how no questions now that it is Windows and Pad in same sentence…
I love the idea that this will be concentrating on creation. What will they be creating when there simply isn’t the adequate software or multi touch interface to do so adequately which is precisely the reason why such tablets have failed for years and why HP (who should know) have dumped the concept. I suppose when you have nothing to offer yo have to stick with the same old devalued message over and over.
@ wyatt
You don’t have a clue what “open” means in this context.
Here’s what they don’t get…
Until such time as they come up with a competitor to iTunes, they can build the greatest tablet since they started slicing the bread before selling it and it won’t matter a bit. Content is king and no one has come up with a serious alternative to iTunes so no one can come up with a serious competitor to any device that that syncs up with it.
How do you pronounce Kok?
Oops! Lost my stylus … Guess I’ll just use my iPad.
4/3/2010 – The day the world changed for the better.
I want to wish all the other Apple iPad wannabe creators Good Luck!
I own an iPad and although there are a few things that it does lack indeed, it is still an engineering marvel. They (iPad competitors) have large shoes to fill in order to take a piece of the pie. Apple is also famous for their marketing tactics, they got techies by the…umm…hand. And those techies, like myself, are true to fruit brand.
Cheers.
Read my review on the iPad here.
I’m sorry, but … really? Really?
Asus – Anus
Eee Pad – Pee Pad
Charmian Kok – Chairman Kok
Jonney Shih – well… do I need to continue?
Just replace all the odd words in the article with appropriate mistakes and the article is much more fun (and accurate) read!
anything can “take on” the iPad.
to win, however, is a completely different story. No Asus device running Windows 7 is likely to measure up in the subjective categories that discerning tablet computing customers care about…
The “rush to market” competitors are cobbling together off the shelf components to enter the marketplace. There is no vision, no overall control of design. Once compared to the iPad standard, the marketplace will regurgitate them.
I hope they are ready for the returns.
One thing with these wannabe products is the minute you’ve bought it, it’s virtually worthless….I’ll bet you could use the Ipad for quite some time and still recoup the majority of your money to upgrade to the next version when it arrives…My experience with any windows product is it has no resale value whatsoever…That’s simply not the case with Apple products…Sure you’ll save a $100 upfront on that knock off but you’ll lose all your money in the long run, which basically means after a couple days…
How many people have tried to put windows on a tablet and failed. ever since getting an iPhone my windows box has been getting spiderwebs. I am never going back. Ipad here I come. It’s like warping ten years into the future.
Two pages of comments, and no one noticed that this article was penned by Chairman Kok?
Asus design, Windows OS, Intel chip, Asus/Intel app store, and Flash.
Oh Boy, what a mess.
What is the the Flash story all about? I live in the UK. I have been using an iPad for 4 days. Only once have I been thwarted by the lack of Flash and that was on Fox news. perhaps I have unusual surfing patterns and I certainly wont miss not accessing Fox News
As a blatant visual copy of the iPad, these things don’t look half bad.
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Shoehorning a power hungry, keyboard and mouse driven OS into this type of form factor is ridiculous. Sure, the keypad, USB port, Flash anti-Apple whiners will love it… The spec sheet anyway.
Since it’s being promised for release in (at least) six months, they’ll have plenty of time to research, test and deploy ground-breaking battery and touch-based Win7 UI technologies to silence all the naysayers.
How will they work around the mouse hover requirement for buttons created in Flash?
Cribbed from engadget, and no, I am NOT making this up – although I did add emphasis:
“We can tell you that both models are incredibly well built — they’ve got aluminum edges and matte back covers — and neither was particularly heavy. The EP121 wasn’t booting at all, but it was being shown off with a super sleek keyboard docking station, which will be used to turn the tablet into an ultraportable laptop of sorts….”
I can tell you, Mr. Engadget Reviewer, that it’s pretty to make things that are “incredibly well built” when there is no requirement that they even POWER ON. Slabs of granite satisfy this definition. And I’m guessing that the super sleek keyboard would work just as well with the aforementioned granite slab.
MDN word: average. MDN is too kind. It should be “substandard”.