Asus Touchscreen UI video
The soon-to-be-released Eee PC T91 and T101 netbooks will be featuring touchscreen, and Asus has made its own touchscreen UI for the much-awaited netbooks.
Windows Touch Remix
Windows Touch Remix is a program launcher for netbooks and laptops running Windows. It’s mean to mimic the original simple mode interfaces of the original Xandros Linux of the old Eee PC 701s.
It still is in the very early phases of development, so be aware of bugs. Requires .NET 3.5
No new Asus netbook models?
Taipei Times report that Asus may not release new netbook models until the 2nd quarter of 2009 due to an inventory problem.
On Jan. 8, the company issued an emergency statement, saying it would revise downward its fourth-quarter shipment forecasts across all product lines because of lower market demand. It also cut its gross and operating margin outlooks in the three months ending Dec. 31.
Well, this is disheartening. We don’t want to see the innovator in netbooks give up their netbook line.
Jolicloud OS’s interface looks promising
Jolicould OS has unveiled a new interface. I don’t care much about the busy background image, but it’s looking real good so far. Originally sporting an Ubuntu Netbook remix interface, the new and improved one looks sleek. It does borrow a few ideas from Xandros Easy Mode, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and Linpus Linux Lite, but who cares? The sleeker the netbook-designed interfaces are, the better it is for all of us netbook lovers.
[via Liliputing]
CrunchEee
CrunchBang Linux has released a version for the Asus Eee, called the CrunchEee. According to Liliputing:
The OS comes preloaded with Firefox, VLC, and not much else. If you want OpenOffice.org, or even lighter weight office apps like Abiword and Gnumeric, you’ll have to install them yourself. But this means that CrunchEee is very light on your hard drive, SSD, RAM, and other system resources.
Check out CrunchEee here.
Asus releases BIOS update for Eee PC 1000H/1002HA
From Liliputing:
Asus has released BIOS updates for at least two Eee PC models including the Eee PC 1000H and Eee PC 1002HA. There’s no solid information explaining what’s new in the latest BIOS versions, but some members of the EeeUser forums say their computers seem to boot a few seconds faster after updating the Eee PC 1000H BIOS.
The BIOS update links below:
Eee Phone?
Apparently, Asus has big dreams for the Eee brand. Asus’s phones are one of the best in the market, and they want the Eee brand to go that path as well.
According to the Chinese Economic Daily News, the Eee Phone will be a low-cost mobile device in tune with the company’s strategy in developing affordable quality products. This is Asus’ way of helping out consumers who are severaly affected by the ongoing economic crisis worldwide.
I wonder how the Eee phone will turn out. No specs nor mock-ups as of yet.
[via]
Eee Wireless Keyboard
Asus has revealed its newest Eee product: the Eee wireless keyboard. Echoing Mac-like designs, it’s also a “fully functional PC” with a secondary touchscreen. It connects to your TV with a wireless HDMI connection. In other words, it can turn your HDTV into a computer monitor, allowing you to turn any TV in your house into a multimedia PC.
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Team Fortress 2 on the Asus Eee PC 1000H
On SteamCommunity.com, a Filipino Team Fortress 2 enthusiast known only as “The Neighbor”, announced that he was able to tweak his Eee PC 1000H to run his beloved game.
You can try setting it up with similar laptops without dedicated graphics cards. Don’t expect too much though. Games only run at 30 fps indoors and just 10 fps outdoors. Discolorations with the characters is bad that you sometimes can’t tell the enemy. The game crashes when there’s too much graphical calculations coming in, ie – more players joining or you go through water.
[via Technograph]
