Sure, the consumer electronics industry seems to be in the midst of a tablet frenzy, with dozens of Windows, Android, and WebOS tablets in the works. But there’s a select group of people who have never been satisfied waiting for the market to meet their needs. Instead they’ve been creating cheap Windows tablets by adding touchscreens to off-the-shelf netbooks for…

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It looks like I missed something when perusing J&R’s pre-Black Friday sales list today. In addition to the $270 Eee Box nettop computer, the New York based retailer is selling an Asus Eee PC 1000HD for $329.99. That’s about $30 lower than the price J&R usually charges for this netbook. The Asus Eee PC 1000HD has a 10.2 inch, 1024…

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Back in July Asus announced plans to launch 2 more models in the company’s neverending Eee PC lineup: The 904HD and the 1000HD. Basically, they were to be virtually identical to the Eee PC 1000H and the Eee PC 901, except that both would have a 900MHz Intel Celeron processor instead of a 1.6GHz Intel Atom chip, and the 904HD…

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Well, this is interesting. PC World and InfoWorld are both running articles by Dan Nystedt at IDG News Service today. Both reports are likely based on the same source article, but they seem to have two very different angles. InfoWorld says Asustek turns to Celerons amid Atom shortage, while PC World says Asustek Aims New Eee PCs at Emerging Markets….

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Asus has decided to throw its naming conventions to the wind and launch two new Eee PC models with rather nonsensical names. The Eee PC 1000HD is pretty much just like the Eee PC 1000H, but instead of an Intel Atom CPU, it features an Intel Pentium M Dothan CPU running at 900MHz. In other words, you get a 10…

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