With a jaw-dropping $99 pricetag, a robust feature set, and compatibility with nearly every known media format, Asus’ new O!Play HDP-R1 HD Media Player looks flat-out incredible.

If the future of multimedia download and storage is this simple and cost-effective, DVD, Blu-ray, and CDs really are doomed. The O!Play offers buzz-word features like 1080p high-def video, high speed file transfers, easy playback of local, network, or internet content, and one-click music sharing at a price so low it makes Apple TV unreasonable.
The O!Play comes with its own remote control, along with HDMI, composite audio/video, and optical digital audio ports. Asus really …read more

The market for ebook readers grows daily, thanks to the success of Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s eReader, and now inexpensive tech maker Asus is preparing to enter the market with its own device. Here’s the twist: Asus plans to deliver more bang for the buck — at about half the price of Amazon and Sony’s products.

How they’re going to manage that remains a mystery, but Asus “Eee Reader” is said to have not one but two screens, both with full color displays (the Kindle and eReader both use e-ink that’s black & white only), built-in WiFi for surfing the Web, …read more

Asus has released it’s new set of Asus notebook and computers with screen sizes ranging from a still large screen of 15.6 to extreme multimedia computer at 17.3 inches. These computers are either AMD or Intel enabled and cover users of various preference.

Asus models K70AB-TY002C and TY001C are their biggest computers at 17.3 inches in screen size. Processors of these hardware are either AMD Turion 64 X2 RM 74 (2.2GHz) processor for 2C, while the 1C is powered by a Turion 64 X2 Ultra ZM-84 (2.3GHz).  These models come with 4GB of DDR2 memory and an ATI Mobility Radeon …read more

Stephen Lim, general manager of Linpus Technologies, predicts a 50% share for netbooks by next year. Stephan Lim, that is not going to happen.

Linux had it’s chance when Asus launched it’s netbook. Industry experts content that Linux is making a big push on the netbooks market as the operating system requires less hardware processing power, perfect for netbooks. Linux did not fail, but Microsoft simply extended Windows XP life on netbooks and the tables quickly turned. Linux was left in the dust, a place they long occupied.
Stephen is a dreamer, and his dreams of Linux penetrating 50% of the …read more

Rumors are circulating that Asus is almost ready with their own version of Apple’s MacBook Air netbook. Their own laptop would also feature a very thin computer  similar to the Air with 10” or less in screen size – the size category of netbooks as defined by Intel.

There is an ongoing explosion of netbooks and a thin version is going to be welcomed by consumers which should make Apple seriously consider creating their own netbooks lineup.
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You must have heard about the Asus Eee PC by now, the amazing little machine loved by all? Kind of like the Little PC that Could? Well, now you can use the My Cinema U3100 tuner to watch HDTV channels. Granted, it won’t display HDTV-quality pictures because the screen is only 800×480, but at least you know you can get TV on your Eee PC. Also a feature taken away is H.264 streams because there is no decoder on the Eee for H.264, but MPEG-2 streams will play. There is no recording feature, but with a maximum of 8GB SSD, …read more