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| Asustek Unveils 20x Intelligent DVD Burner |  | Asustek has just unveiled its new DRW-20B1S/B1ST DVD rewriter with SATA connectivity and Optimal Tuning Strategy (OTS) technology. According to the manufacturer, the new DVD burner is able to burn DVD-RAM media at 12X, DVD+/-R discs at 20x and DVD+/-R double layer media at 12x.
The strongest point in the DRW-20B1S/B1ST is the addition of Asustek's Optimal Tuning Strategy technology that adds an extra layer of data integri ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 10:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows XP-Based Eee PC, Cheaper than Its Linux Sibling |  | Asustek's Eee PC miniature notebook is a great success in America and the manufacturer plans to score the same results in Australia, with the advent of its Windows XP-based model. The 8.9-inch Eee PC model is reportedly slated to retail for a lower price than the Linux-powered counterpart.
The Taiwanese company is currently offering two models of the Eee PC 900. Until now, the ultra-mobile PC was only available with a Li ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek's Eee PC Bursts into Flames Due to 3rd Party Batteries |  | Recent reports emerging in China unveiled that an Asustek Eee PC ultra-mobile PC burst into flames due to an uncertified battery pack. The incident seems to have been triggered by the use of a third-party battery designed for the tiny Eee PC. Despite the fact that the notebook user was not injured, it caused substantial damage to the unit.
Last month, a few high capacity batteries for the Eee PC started selling on the eBay onl ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 03:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Unveils Splendid MA3850M Graphics Card with Independent Color Processor |  | Asustek has just introduced its MA3850M graphics card offering, world's first single-chip unit of its kind, equipped with a stand-alone color processor. Based on a mobile version of ATI's Radeon HD 3850 graphics core, the new card builds on the performance of a generic graphics card but cuts down on energy requirements.
The Splendid MA3850M card has a modular structure, and is 27 percent shorter than an average PCI-E ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 10:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek's 17-Inch G70 Notebook, the Dual Gaming Rig |  | Asustek has just announced its latest addition to the G series of notebooks, a 17-inch gaming rig that comes with a dual structure across its major system components, such as dual graphics engine, dual hard drive bays and dual fan systems.
Introduced during this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the new notebook promises to move gaming from the high-performance desktop system to a mobile and elegant system. The G70 is ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Radeon 3850 X2 Goes Online Next Week |  | Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices is making a comeback with another dual-chip graphics card from the 3850 X2 series. The new offering will be able to deliver less power than the company's flagship Radeon HD 3870 X2, but it will also come with a lower price tag.
One of the first manufacturers to release the new 3850 X2 model to the market will be Asustek with its ... [read more >>] | | 26 April 2008, 02:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Cheats on Eee PC Battery Lifetime |  | Taiwanese notebook manufacturer is reportedly misleading its Eee PC 900 reviewers by sending units rigged with higher-capacity battery packs than the commercially available Eee PC 900 models. The advent of the 9-inch Eee PC model is an impor ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 08:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 3K Releases Eee-PC Lookalike for Less than $399 |  | As if the already released ultra mobile PCs were not enough, 3K Computers announced another ultra-portable computer that strikingly resembles the successful Eee PC. The PC manufacturer has a long tradition in selling re-branded OEM notebooks, and its new $399 Longitude 400 perfectly fits into the picture.
The notebook weighs a little below 900 grams and is shaped in the same style as Asustek's Eee PC 701. It comes with th ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek's Eee PC Put to New and Illegal Use |  | Asustek's tiny Eee PC can hardly be regarded as a fierce tool of hacking, given the fact that it’s more of a toy than a fully-fledged computer. Of course, behind the eye-candy shell, you can still find a computer to give you all the features of modern PCs.
A group of tech-savvy thieves decided that they could take advantage of the notebook's diminutive size in order to cash some extra bucks. If you were thinking abou ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek: Battery Shortage Comes to an End in June |  | Taiwanese conglomerate Asustek expects that most of its battery shortage issues to finally fade away by June this year. The company's mobile business was extremely affected by the March fire at the LG Chem battery manufacturing facility, which created a disruptio ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 06:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MSI Introduces Wind, Gets Ready for the UMPC Battle |  | Micro-Star International has just announced its Wind series of ultra-mobile notebooks, that are alleged to compete on the same low-cost market as Asustek's Eee PC. According to MSI, the Wind will come in either an 8.9- or 10-inch display option, and will be able to deliver resolutions of up to 1024×600.
The one-kilogram notebook will be available for purchase with a pre-installed copy of Windows XP. Despite the fact that ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek's Eee PC 900 Arrives on May 12, $549 Price Tag |  | One of the strong points in Asustek's Eee PC 701 was its diminutive price tag, situated below the $400 threshold. However, the upcoming version of the notebook is slated for May 12 release and will come with a little premium, currently set at $549.
It's true that the new sub-notebook will feature additional functionality, such as a larger, 8.9-inch LCD display, increased storage capacity and a pre-installed Windows X ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asus Goes Official With the De-Atomized Eee PC 900 |  | Asustek's Eee PC 401 ultra-mobile PC managed to sell 5 million units in just five months, but the company has greater expectations from its newly-introduced Eee PC 900 model. The Taiwanese notebook manufacturer finally pulled the veil off the 9-inch m ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 10:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asus Touts New Desktop PC to the Eee Lineup |  | Asustek's recently announced Eee PC desktop system has caused quite a buzz around the miniature computer enthusiasts. However, while the upcoming 9-inch Eee PC and the 4G-X model that ships with Windows XP shine in all their glory, the latest desktop PC addition sneaks quietly to take its place on the market.
The Taiwanese manufacturer has announced its latest addition to its low-cost desktop PC portfolio, known as the Es ... [read more >>] | | 10 April 2008, 02:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek to Unveil Its Blu-Ray, Dual-HDD Multimedia Notebook |  | Taiwanese conglomerate Asustek is reportedly working on its new 17-inch multimedia notebook in the M70Sa line-up. The company has managed to obtain an interesting hardware cocktail, and the notebook promises to deliver everything a multimedia enthusiast could ever dream about.
The mobile computer is built around Intel's 45-nanometer Core 2 Duo T9300 processor running at 2.5GHz with 6MB L2 cache. The memory options are als ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 17:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asus Unveils World's First Tri-GPU Graphics Card |  | Asustek's three-GPU graphics solution we told you about last month was officially introduced today. Touted as the first graphics card to pack no less than three graphics cores, Asustek's EAH3850 TRINITY/3DHTI/1.5G delivers an insan ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 11:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Unveils New Graphics Cards From AMD and Nvidia |  | Asustek has unveiled a new series of graphics cards based on both AMD and Nvidia graphics processing units. The three new additions to Asustek's graphics cards portfolio are the EN9800GTX/HTDP/512M, EAH3850X2/HTDI/1G and the EAH3650 SILENT/HTDI/1G models.
The EN9800GTX graphics offering is based on Nvidia's GeForce 9800GTX graphics core. The new card comes with HybridPower technology and the company claims that it of ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 05:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Slams IBM With Patent Infringement Countersuit |  | Computer manufacturer Asustek has just filled a lawsuit against the US-based conglomerate IBM over an alleged patent infringement regarding its intellectual property. Asustek's legal action comes as a response to a previous lawsuit filled by IBM against the Taiwanese vendor on the same grounds.
The system vendor filled its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, seeking relief from the ... [read more >>] | | 07 April 2008, 20:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Unveils Dual-GPU HD 3850 Graphics Card |  | Taiwanese computer manufacturer Asustek has just unveiled its newest HD 3850 X2 graphics card with 1GB of memory. The dual-chip behemoth has shifted from pure rumors to silicon and metal in less than a week.
The new HD 3850 X2 graphics card uses the same ... [read more >>] | | 04 April 2008, 11:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Rushes to the Market With Mobile Internet Devices |  | Taiwanese computer manufacturer Asustek plans to release a new miniaturized mobile solution, called the R50. The device breaks the company's line of ultra-mobile PC's such as the Eee PC, in order to follow Intel on the Mobile Interned Devices playground.
The R50 is a 5.6-inch mobile Internet device that is expected to kick in before June this year. According to Tony Chen, general manager of Asustek's notebook bu ... [read more >>] | | 04 April 2008, 08:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Reportedly Working on ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 |  | Taiwanese manufacturer Asustek is reportedly working on a new edition of ATI Radeon HD 3850, that will come with two graphics cores. Following the immediate success of the company's Radeon 3870 X2 dual-GPU behemoth, the Taiwanese manufacturer will pitch the new offering at the performance-mainstream graphics enthusiasts.
According to tech website VR-Zone, the company plans to introduce its own design based on AMD's ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2008, 06:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Creative: You Fix Our Sound Drivers, We Throw You In Jail |  | Soundcard specialist Creative has been marketing its sound-related products as "Vista Ready" since the release of the new operating system from Microsoft. However, things are not quite exactly true, and many of the company's customers have fallen for this "misunderstanding".
The issue relies in the Windows Vista sound drivers the Creative engineers have written. However, the code comes crippled in the ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 12:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Leaked: Asustek's Desktop Version of the Eee PC Got Pictured |  | Remember Asustek's EP 20 desktop computer in the Eee PC series we have told you about? It seems like the ultra-low cost desktop PC made an appearance in the open space. Officially called the "Digital Home System EP20".
Initially spotted during the CeBIT, the desktop PC is extremely svelte and seems the best choice for populating extremely crowded offices or laboratories where minimal computing power is required ... [read more >>] | | 29 March 2008, 09:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Unveils Geforce 8300-Based Motherboard With HDMI Ports |  | Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer Asustek has just unveiled its new M3N-H/HDMI model, with Nvidia's Geforce 8300 integrated graphics. This is the first board on the market to come with the new GeForce 8300 graphics core, that delivers superior 3D performance as compared to the older Geforce 8200 graphics core.
According to the first evaluations, the extra performance comes at a price: the graphics core is reportedly runn ... [read more >>] | | 29 March 2008, 08:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Unveils My Cinema-PE9400 Combo TV Tuner |  | Asustek has just unveiled a new TV tuner in the My Cinema series, that allows users to enjoy both digital and analog TV using their desktop computers. The new offering connects to the PC via a PCI-Express interface and can support both digital (ATSC/QAM) and analog (NTSC) TV programs formats.
The built-in MPEG2 hardware encoder offloads the CPU workload while providing high-quality video output for a fully versatile multimedia ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 05:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Eee PC Gets Dissected By FCC: Bluetooth and Multi-Finger Trackpad |  | Asustek's next generation of Eee PC has just landed on the FCC's workbench, where it got minutely dissected and specified. The Federal Communications Commission's report revealed quite some nifty features to go along with it's larger, resistive screen.
In spite of Asustek officials' statements, the new Eee PC 900 features a power adapter much larger than the previous 401 model, and while it might not ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2008, 17:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek's Three-GPU EAH3850 Cards Gets Full Specifications |  | Asustek's Trinity EAH3850 graphics card got its specifications earlier than expected. The tri-GPU graphics prototype surely raised a wave of interest among the tech enthusiasts around, and the hardware manufacturer fueled users' fantasies with the card's full specifications.
According to tech site Nordic Hardware ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2008, 10:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Confirmed: Asustek's Upcoming Eee PC Will Feature Touch-Screen Capabilities |  | Asustek's ultra-popular Eee PC was announced earlier this year to come with a significant memory boost and touch screen capabilities along with a bigger LCD display. However, many of the promised features have been stripped down as the Asustek engineers were "cooking" the notebook.
According to Asustek's president Jerry Chan, the 9-incher was stripped down of its touchscreen capabilities. The news was brok ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2008, 16:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dell, HP to Face Notebook Battery Shortage After LG Chem Fire |  | The recent fire that devastated LG Chem's battery production unit in Ochang on March 3rd triggered a battery shortage in the notebook PC industry. The company is the second biggest South Korean battery manufacturer and supplies its parts to major notebook vendors such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
In order to fight the tight battery supply, Dell had to artificially increase pricing for its separately sold batteries. Anothe ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2008, 07:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Creative: Asustek's Sound Cards Don't Support EAX |  | Asustek recently released a new series of sound cards targeted at the enthusiast and high-end markets, which somehow ended Creative's supremacy on the market. Until Asustek arrived on the market, users who would like to enjoy a Hi-Fi ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2008, 07:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A-Data Unveils New Eee PC Storage Accessories |  | Memory manufacturer A-Data has just unveiled two new storage accessories especially targeted at the Eee PC users. The S701 USB flash drive and SDHC memory card Eee PC special edition come to complement the default storage space the Eee PC ships with.
One of the most criticized aspects of the extremely popular Eee PC is its reduced storage capacity. Although the maximum amount of 8 GB is enough for running the pre-installed Xa ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2008, 04:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Leaked: Asustek Stealthily Prepares Three-GPU EAH3850 Graphics Card |  | Asustek is reportedly working on a new graphics card offering in the EAH3850 series. Codenamed "Trinity", the new solution will pack three graphics processors in the ATI RV670 family and promises to take over Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GX2 highest-end offering.
According to Finnish tech site Plaza, the card will come with three graphics core produced by Nvidia's arch-rival AMD. The company's graphics engine ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 11:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Acer's Low-Cost PC, Cheaper than Austek's Eee 2.0 |  | Acer plans on tightening the competition on the low-cost ultra-mobile PC market with the advent of its newest 8.9-inch sub-notebook. According to sources quoted by the tech site Digitimes, Acer's low-cost offering is expected to sell $50 less than the free-on-board (FOB) price for Asustek Computer's second-gen ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 17:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Unveils Splendid HD1 Video Enhancement Card |  | Asustek has just announced its new ASUS Splendid HD1 video enhancement card graphics solution, that is allegedly able to deliver improved graphics performance for high-definition multimedia applications, with sharper, more vividly colored visual outputs.
The enhancement card comes bundled with Asustek's Splendid technology and is alleged to enhance lower resolution inputs by recovering image clarity, as well as to unleash ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asus Unveils Blu-Ray M50 Multimedia Notebooks |  | Taiwanese PC vendor Asustek has just announced its M50 notebook that comes with Blu-Ray drives and Intel 45-nanometer Penryn processors. The multimedia portable PC pairs a Blu-Ray PC with a set of Altec Lansing integrated speakers and Dolby Home Theater capabilities.
The notebook's casing features a smooth, glossy finish of a grand piano, that makes the notebook go along with the other Home Theater components. The Asus&# ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 06:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel to Spread the Classmate PC Across US, European Markets |  | Intel is reported to introduce its educational Classmate PC sub-notebook on the U.S. and European retail markets during the next weeks. The ultra-mobile notebook is one of the direct competitors of the OLPC XO sub-notebook and is especially designed for the emerging and developing markets worldwide.
According to Lila Ibrahim, general manager of Intel's emerging market platform group, the Classmate PC will hit the retailer ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 05:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GX2 is Now Available |  | The non-disclosure agreement regarding Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card has ended, and the first graphics cards with the new GPU have started to emerge. Palit is one of the first graphics card manufacturers to announce its 9800 GX2-based product, that comes with a bonus: free game server hosting for the first three months.
The reference card is built using two separate PCBs, two G92 chips and two power connectors, ... [read more >>] | | 18 March 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Tiny Eee PC Gets Carbon Fiber Touch |  | Asustek's tiny Eee PC is one of the best-selling ultra-mobile PCs in the world. In fact, it sold so well, that people "wearing" the Eee can be seen almost everywhere. However, when fashion is becoming a standard, there's nothing much special left in having one of the units. That's why custom-made Eee PCs have recently emerged on websites such as eBay.
If you are a fashionable computer user, you might ... [read more >>] | | 17 March 2008, 07:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Unveils Desktop PC Model |  | Asustek has been rumored to work on a desktop computer since January, but the upcoming Eee PC 900 got all the customers' attention. However, the new desktop system from the Taiwanese PC manufacturer can be regarded as the desktop alternative to the Eee.
The EP20 desktop computer is officially called the "Digital Home System EP20", but right underneath its name, the manufacturer added the well-known "Easy t ... [read more >>] | | 15 March 2008, 05:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek: Two Thirds Of the Eee PCs Will Ship With Windows |  | Taiwanese PC vendor Asustek plans to release two thirds of their Eee PC production, which will come with a pre-installed version of Windows XP. The decision has been made after the incredible success of the Windows XP version of the tiny Eee.
The previous version of the Eee PC used to come with a 7-inch screen and a limited resolution of 800x480, which had some shortcomings in correctly displaying the Windows XP desktop. The n ... [read more >>] | | 14 March 2008, 05:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Introduces Computer Display With Video-Conferencing Features |  | Taiwanese PC vendor Asustek has just announced its newest LCD computer display with built-in, adjustable webcam. The 24-inch MK241H model comes with MIC-Array device, stereo speakers and an earphone jack, to go along with its full-1080p high-definition capabilities.
The LCD monitor is rigged with videoconferencing capabilities, and that is why the manufacturer took extra care in implementing both sound and video technologies. ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 09:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Details Upon Eee PCs Roadmap |  | The advent of a larger-screen, more powerful Eee PC in the 900 series is hardly news, as Asustek announced it before the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany. However, the company decided that it's time it release more details about what proved to be one of the best sold products in its offering.
The 9-inch Eee PC 900 will start shipping in April, but the manufacturer hasn't nailed the event down to a specific date yet. Th ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 11:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek's Mouse can Double as Storage Device, Gets Ruined By Form-Factor |  | Taiwanese PC vendor Asustek has released an extremely interesting proof-of-concept device, that combines a portable wireless mouse with flash storage. Unlike other manufacturers that are re-inventing the wheel, when it comes to novelty in terms of mice, Asustek's idea might have paid off if it were functional.
The final design of the device does not resemble at all to a wireless mouse. On the contrary, they decided to ign ... [read more >>] | | 10 March 2008, 13:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MSI Prepares Eee PC Killer, Pushes 10-Inchers as Industry Standard |  | Notebook manufacturer Micro-Star International has entered the UMPC race for real with its upcoming MSI Wind. The sub-notebook comes with a 10-inch display and has been premiered at this year's CeBIT expo.
MSI's laptop is a stylish, 10-inch ultra-portable notebook that is expected to pose some serious problems to Asustek's upcoming Eee PC 900. Luckily for the competition, it will not be ready until the second qu ... [read more >>] | | 10 March 2008, 10:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The New 9-Inch Eee PC Will Come With Extra Features, Atom Processor |  | Asustek has told media about the new 9-inch offering right before the CeBIT event. Despite the fact that company representatives allowed the press to fiddle with the small notebook, they did not allow anyone to turn on the exhibits present at the event, in order to furthermore fuel the rumors regarding the device's processor. Since too much secrecy can harm the brand, it was the company to start spilling the beans on the Eee ... [read more >>] | | 10 March 2008, 09:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CeBIT 2008: Asus' Extreme Motherboards Take the Stage |  | Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer has unleashed its top-tier motherboard offerings during the CeBIT expo, and showcased an impressive motherboard built in collaboration with Republic of Gamers, as well as a sample of the DeLuxe P5Q3 Wi-Fi-based offering.
The Striker II Extreme motherboard from Asustek is a whole new platform for gamers, developed with the close collaboration of Republic of Gamers. In fact, as far as it has be ... [read more >>] | | 10 March 2008, 06:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek's Eee PC Gets Official With Microsoft's Windows XP |  | Eee computers have been running Windows XP for quite some time now, thanks to the ultra-mobile PC enthusiasts that would shape the little device to suit their needs. Asustek decided that it was high time for the secret relationship between the machine and Microsoft's OS to go official and introduced its Windows XP version.
The new choice of operating system will let users buy a pre-loaded Windows XP machine instead of the ... [read more >>] | | 07 March 2008, 09:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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