Rumor: Asus Eee PC T101H coming next year, toting Atom N450

t101hThe Eee PC T101H is a 10 inch convertible tablet-style netbook from Asus. The company first showed a demo of the netbook at CES in January, 2009 but it has yet to hit the streets. And now Netbook News.de is reporting that Asus plans to show off a revamped model at CES 2010. The new model could be available as soon as Q1, 2010.

This will be the second convertible tablet from Asus. The first was the Eee PC T91, which has an 8.9 inch display. But that model had an incredibly tiny keyboard and an awkwardly slow processor. The Eee PC T101H will have a larger keyboard, a larger 10.2 inch touchscreen display, and a faster processor.

According to a Netbook News.de tipster, the updated T101H will have a multi-touch display, a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 pineview processor, 1GB of RAM, a 16GB solid state disk, and 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth, and optional GPS, 3G, and DVB-T modules. The laptop will also reportedly have an accelerometer and a battery that’s good for up to 8 hours.

It’ll ship with Windows 7 Home Premium. Now for the bad news. The laptop will reportedly have a starting price of nearly 700 Euros, or over $1000 US.

I’m going to take all of this with a grain of salt for now. After all, we’re talking about an anonymous tip regarding a product that was technically introduced more than 10 months ago.

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Posted on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009, 10:29 am by Brad Linder
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  • Ryutso
    What the heck? Where's the Chiclet MacBook-style keyboard I fell in love with at CES? The keyboard now looks like my old 1000HD.
  • tl
    If it retains this keyboard layout, then everything else combined (except for the touchpad) would make this the perfect machine for me. It'd be nice to read a book on a plane then convert into notebook mode and work on some code with a comfortable keyboard layout.

    But the price? Really?

    It also looks like it has a uni-button thing going on for the mouse buttons. If that stays, how will it feel in use?

    Why, oh why are the near-perfections kept so far out of reach for me - either hugely expensive or just not available? I'm not wanting much, and I can't be alone in wanting a matte or low gloss display and a proper keyboard (no Fn key on left, etc)...
  • Looks interesting, but before I'd replace my Gigabyte T1028, I'd want to see how easy it is to upgrade the RAM, to replace the 16 Gig SSD with something more substantial, and if it's video capabilities are any better. Especially given the pricing, I'd need to see a pretty big performance difference to switch. And given it isn't even available yet, I suspect most folks who are looking would prefer the bird in the hand over one that remains to even be placed in the bush :-)
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