ASUS finally announces "Eee Pad" competing against the iPad, the battery driving time is over 10 hours

ASUS known as "Eee PC" which created the category of netbook,We plan to release a tablet terminal "EeePad" to counter Apple's iPadJerry Shen, CEO (CEO) of the company, revealed in April, was finally officially announced at last.

The 12-inch model and the 10-inch model are available in two versions, with a Core 2 Duo processor, etc., as well as a 10-hour drive with a battery.

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According to this press release, ASUS has developed a tablet terminal "Eee Pad" as the latest model of the "Eee" series that began with "Eee PC". "Eee Pad" has two models of "Eee Pad EP121" equipped with a 12-inch touch panel and "Eee Pad EP101TC" equipped with a 10-inch touch panel.

"Eee Pad EP 121"


"Eee Pad EP 101 TTC"


Although it is an anxious spec, "Eee Pad EP121" is a model adopting Intel's CULV version Core 2 Duo processor and Windows 7 Home Premium, and it checks e-mail and calendar, video conference, Microsoft Word and Excel In addition to providing a multitasking environment that allows you to seamlessly create documents with Dock, you can also use comfortable character input by attaching a keyboard externally using a dock. Battery operation time is more than 10 hours.

And the 10-inch model "Eee Pad EP101TC" has an ARM-based processor and adopts Windows Embedded Compact 7 as the OS. It is a thin model with a weight of 675 grams and a thickness of 12.2 mm.

ASUS Eee Pad official: Intel CULV processors, Windows 7, and a 10-hour battery life - Engadget

ASUS Eee Pad EP101TC and EP121 preview - Engadget

According to these articles, "Eee Pad" is scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2011, and the price is "Eee Pad EP101TC" for "Eee Pad EP 121" at 499 dollars (about 45 thousand yen) Will be 399 dollars (about 36,500 yen).

I tried Apple's iPad (left) side by side with Eee Pad (right).


Every model had prototypes on display but was in a "barely operating" state, "Eee Pad EP 121" was not running OS, "Eee Pad EP 101 TTC" OS also Although it was running, it is said that there were many incomplete parts in the interface, and it seems that it is still in the middle of development. By the way, "Eee Pad EP101TC" is said to have NVIDIA's Tegra processor on CPU.

"Eee Pad EP101TC" screen.


It is rather bad, but what kind of interface will it become in the product version?


Dock and keyboard


There is an expansion terminal on the back side of the dock