The Asus Eee PC X101 is the thinnest, lightest, and cheapest member of the Eee PC netbook family. The mini-laptop weighs just two pounds, measures less than 0.7 inches thick, and sells for about $200. In order to build a netbook that’s both small and inexpensive, Asus made some interesting design choices. The Eee PC […]
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OpenMobile ACL lets Android apps run on MeeGo, makes the platform a lot more useful
MeeGo is a Linux-based operating system designed to run on netbooks, tablets, and other mobile devices. While you can tweak MeeGo to run a wide variety of Linux applications, there aren’t all that many apps designed specifically for MeeGo right now, which means that while the operating system is designed to run on small touch-screen […]
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Chucking MeeGo: Asus Eee PC X101 tested with Windows, Ubuntu, Chromium
The Asus Eee PC X101 is an inexpensive netbook with 1GB of RAM, an 8GB solid state disk, and a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 processor. Those specs are pretty anemic compared to a typical 2010 or 2011 model netbook, but they all help keep the price low. Asus expects the X101 to sell for […]
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Hands on with the Asus Eee PC X101 MeeGo netbook
The Asus Eee PC X101 is a the thinnest 10 inch netbook Asus has released to date. It’s also the cheapest. The little notebook is available for as little as $199. In order to keep costs low, Asus loads the netbook with MeeGo Linux instead of Windows, uses a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 processor […]
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Asus Eee PC X101 MeeGo netbook now available for $199 and up
The Asus Eee PC X101 is a 10 inch netbook that may just have the lowest starting price of any laptop ever produced. While plenty of older netbooks start $300 and then see price drop after price drop until they hit $200, the X101 is a brand new machine that Asus promised would cost just […]
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Asus Eee PC X101 MeeGo netbook reviewed
Asus hasn’t started shipping the Eee PC X101 netbook in the US yet, but our friends at Eee PC.it in Italy got their hands on one the $200 mini-notebook powered by a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 processor and MeeGo Linux operating system. They’ve posted a detailed reivew, along with a few videos that include […]
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Is MeeGo doomed? (And what does that mean for the Eee PC X101?)
MeeGo is a Linux-based operating system optimized to run on low power devices with small screens including smartphones, tablets, and netbooks. The project is backed by Intel, and up until recently Nokia was a big player on the MeeGo scene, but Nokia has pretty much given up on MeeGo and is in the process of […]
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Samsung N100 MeeGo netbook starts making the rounds
Asus isn’t the only company with a new low-cost netbook powered by MeeGo Linux and a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 processor. Samsung also recently unveiled a MeeGo netbook called the Samsung N100. But while Asus plans to sell the Eee PC X101 in the US and other developed nations as well as developing markets, […]
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Asus Eee PC X101H MeeGo netbook unboxed in Vietnam
The Asus Eee PC X101 hasn’t gone on sale in the US yet, but it’s expected to hit the streets in September. Meanwhile, the folks at Vietnamese site Tinhte.vn have already managed to get their hands on the mini-laptop. The Eee PC X101 is one of the first netbooks from a major computer company […]
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Asus: The Eee PC X101 is a netbook aimed at the tablet market
The Asus Eee PC X101 is the thinnest and lightest 10 inch netbook to date from Asus, and it’s the first to run MeeGo Linux. But in a Q&A posted on the Asus Tech in Style website, product manager Brian Tang says one of the reasons for the slim design is that Asus doesn’t just […]