Asus assures no more delays for keyboard-computer
Phantom Eee will manifest soon, honest
Asus promised today that its much delayed Eee keyboard PC will finally ship in April.
The device, which integrates an entire PC into a single keyboard unit, was unveiled at Cebit last year. However, shipping product has yet to appear.
The most recent forecast shipdate was... last month, and the product was still a no-show.
Today Asus chairman Jonney Shih told reporters that user testing had taken longer than expected and the device was, once again, "delayed a little bit".
Shih said he now expected the device to appear in the "April time frame".
"We promised it won't be further delayed," he said, either making himself either a hostage to fortune, or picking a big stick with which to beat the Taiwanese firm's product testing department. ®
COMMENTS
Real reason
I think the delay is in sourcing the cassette tape drive to stick on the end...
Why?
Keyboard + coffee = dead keyboard
Keyboard + intergated computer + coffee = dead everything
Eee 901
My Eee 901 is comfortably the shittest computer I've ever used. If its not doubling-up inputs, its not accepting input at all. And its my 4th one. Useless
What if....
I wanted an external keyboard for language-specific reasons? I'd attach a keyboard to a keyboard and look stooopid. What's the problem with a Mac Mini?
