Playing with a thin Lenovo X301 this morning reminded me of a reader tip about the new thin-and-light Eee PC notebook from Asus. AllanCJ pinged me about the new Asus S101 which is a morphs the Eee line into a higher end, fashionable device. $699 is the starting price when we see it later this month or early next, and I think the question will be: how will consumers look at the S101 from a price, performance and portability triangle.
So aside from the fashion and price difference, what’s new? Not a whole heck of a lot, which is unfortunately becoming common in the Eee PC line. There will be SSD options at 16-, 32- and 64GB for storage, integrated 802.11n and I see that the 36 W/hr battery is a polymer-based power pack. Plus there’s the webcam that actually uses a lower resolution sensor than several of the Eee’s before it: just 0.3-megapixels. Can’t we have function and fashion with our price, performance and portability?

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