Netbooks, Notebooks and Tablets Asus Eee PC 1201PN w/Atom N450, NVIDIA ION for $380 – Newegg (coupon: EMCKHJK23) Asus Eee PC 1015PED 10″ netbook w/Atom N475, Win 7 Starter for $328 – Amazon ViewSonic G-Tablet w/Google Android 2.2, NVIDIA Tegra 2 for $394 – Amazon Asus Eee Slate EP121 12.1 inch Windows tablet w/Intel Core i5 CPU for $969 -…

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The Asus Eee PC 1201PN may look just like the Eee PC 1201N that was released last year, but the new model has a new processor and graphics chip. And it turns out there are pros and cons to those changes. The folks at Laptop Magazine have posted a review of the Eee PC 1201PN and it looks like while…

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Yesterday the first US retailer started taking pre-orders for the Asus Eee PC 1201PN. Today, Asus has added an official product page for the 12 inch laptop with next-generation NVIDIA ION graphics. It’s also starting to show up at additional retail web sites. There aren’t a lot of surprises on the product page, but there are some pretty pictures if…

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The Asus Eee PC 1201PN is the first of several 12 inch laptops from Asus that will succeed the company’s Eee PC 1201N. And it looks like you should be able to pick one up for about $499. ExcaliberPC is now taking pre-orders for the Eee PC 1201PN, with an estimated ship date of June 11. The Eee PC 1201N…

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You can file the Asus Eee PC 1201PN in the worst-kept-secret category. The company has been showing off the 12 inch laptop with next-gen NVIDIA ION graphics since early March. But now it’s really official. The Eee PC 1201PN exists, and it’s available for order in Germany for 479 Euros. That’s about $608 US, although I suspect the laptop will…

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Asus is expected to launch a new 12.1 inch notebook with an Intel Atom processor and NVIDIA ION graphics next month. It’s called the Eee PC 1201PN and it will be one of the first machines with NVIDIA’s next-generation ION graphics and a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor. But if you were holding out for a dual core version, it…

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While there’s reason to believe that some of the first laptops with next-generation NVIDIA ION graphics could ship in France soon, it looks like we might have to wait a little while before they start to show up in the US. Engadget reports that Acer and Asus have both confirmed that their first notebooks with next-generation ION graphics won’t be…

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The Asus Eee PC 1201PN isn’t available to the public yet, but the folks at Notebookcheck managed to get their hands on a pre-release version of this 12.1 inch laptop. Superficially, the notebook looks pretty much the same as the Asus Eee PC 1201N or Asus UL20A. But under the hood it has a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor and…

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Two of the first laptops to get next-generation NVIDIA ION graphics are the Asus Eee PC 1201PN 12.1 inch notebook and the Acer Aspire One 532g netbook. Neither model is available for purchase in the US yet… but French retailer Fnac has added product listings for each. The Acer netbook is expected to start shipping on May 14th, while Fnac…

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So is the next-generation NVIDIA ION platform faster, slower, or about the same as the ION chipset found in notebooks such as the Samsung N510, Lenovo IdeaPad S12 and HP Mini 311? An early benchmark suggested it wasn’t quite up to snuff. But it turns out that test was performed on a pre-release netbook with the less powerful of NVIDIA’s…

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Acer, Asus, Lenovo, and Zotac are among the first companies to announce products sporting the just-announced next-generation NVIDIA ION graphics platform. We already knew about the Acer Aspire One 532G 10 inch netbook which was announced at Mobile World Congress last month. But here are a few more products that will come with next-generation ION graphics. Asus is introducing an…

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Asus introduced three new laptops today. While the model numbers make the Eee PC 1201pN, Eee PC 1018P and Eee PC 1016P sound like modest updates to existing notebooks, these machines actually feature some pretty notable changes in both specs and case design. Asus Eee PC 1201PN This 12.1 inch notebook looks virtually identical to the Eee PC 1201N. But…

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