Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/11/asus_eee_pc_r101/
Asus R101 netbook quietly flies in
Will hopefully avoid the French landscape...
Posted in Laptops, 11th May 2010 15:42 GMT
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Asus is gearing up to release its latest Eee PC netbook, and we hope it fares rather better than its namesake.
Details posted [1] online by a German retailer reveal that the Eee PC R101 is based on Intel's 1.66GHz N450 Atom processor, comes with 1GB of 800MHz DDR 2 memory and a 250GB hard drive, and has the customary 10in, 1024 x 600 display.
Asus Eee PC R101... and infamous namesake
The screen is driven by the GMA 3150 graphics core built into the Atom CPU. The netbook also sports a striking carbon-fibre look.
Ominously, the machine shares its name with the ill-fated British airship [2] built at Cardington [3] near Bedford and which plunged into the French countryside on its 1929 maiden voyage, bursting into a hydrogen-fuelled inferno and killing 48 passengers and crew - more lives lost than the Hindenburg disaster. ®
Via EeePCNews.de [4]
Links
- http://partners.webmasterplan.com/click.asp?site=6460&ref=262186&type=text&subid=&tnb=18&diurl=http://www.notebooksbilliger.de/asus%252Beeepc%252Br101%252Bwin7%252Bweiss?refcampaign_id=fc887bc1e6d29b00c79ab7a998d91ceb
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R101
- http://www.airshipsonline.com/sheds/Cardington.htm
- http://www.eeepcnews.de/asus-eee-r101-erstes-bild-und-technische-details/