bit-tech News: Early Look: Asus Eee PC T91

news · February 22, 2009

Hi all,

We have just published an early hands-on look at the *Asus Eee PC T91*.

If you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.

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*/Pricing is one final topic that we haven¡¯t covered yet ¨C that¡¯s

because nothing has been confirmed yet. Sadly, the exchange rate

fluctuations we¡¯re seeing at the moment mean that all Asus can give us

is a ballpark range for the device. The company is expecting the Eee PC

T91 to sell for somewhere between the Eee PC 1000HE at around ?360 and

the Eee PC S101, which is currently available for about ?420.

That¡¯s quite a lot for an 8.9-inch netbook, but when you factor in some

of the features Asus has integrated into this model ¨C such as the touch

screen, the DVB-T TV tuner, 3G data card and GPS functionality ¨C it

looks like it might be quite good value. Aside from the price, there are

several more unknowns, including the quality of the keyboard, touch

screen software and whether or not the touch pad problems we encountered

are limited to this pre-production sample.

Ultimately, the quality of Asus¡¯ touch screen software is going to

determine the fate of this device because, without great software,

you¡¯re paying for a feature that might be useful on occasion, but is

likely to be a hindrance more often than not. Having not spent time

using the software yet, it's impossible to gauge the fate of the T91 ¨C

keyboard and touch pad issues aside though, the device's build quality

is a notch above most other Eee PCs and not too far from the S101. And

given the amount of time between now and the expected end of April

availability date, we expect the issues we encountered to be resolved.

If touch is your thing, this might be worth a look./

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*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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