Netbook Reviews

Asus have always been one to innovate the tablet market, most noticeably with the Asus Transformer series of tablet computers turn laptops via their docking keyboard unit.

They have now taken the idea of two devices in one even futher with the new Asus PadFone. The PadFone is essentially three devices in one. First off you have the phone itself, which is a 4.3-inch smartphone running Google Android Ice Cream Sunday.

It features a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED 256ppi touch screen, and has a powerful 8-megapixel camera which features a high quality five element lens.

But that’s all fairly standard, so what makes the PadFone different from any other phone (Fone). Well, the Pad in the name is a give away.

Great news for those of you who have been waiting for the new 2012 Asus 1025C Eee PC netbook to be release.

You can now purchase the brand new 2012 Asus Eee PC 1025C for just $299 direct from Amazon in either white or black colors.

We have been waiting for the 1025C since it was announced back in June last year, and then with its official US announcement in January this year at CES 2012.

At the beginning of the year Asus introduced a number of new models to their Eee PC lineup for 2012. Of these new mini laptops / netbooks most made use of the new “Flare” design. While this flare design wasn’t all that different from the previous “seashell” design, with only the keyboard design changing slightly by being recessed.

Asus have also announced a new netbook for 2012, the Asus 1011CX. This 10.1-inch netbook makes use of the new 2012 chipset and processor for 2012, but they have decided to keep the design the same seashell design for the Asus Eee PC 1011CX.

Asus have expanded and re-branded their Transformer tablets to the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity series, dropping the Eee.

The brand new Asus Transformer Pad Infinity takes the Transformer range to the next level, and is powered by a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, with 1GB of RAM.

The Pad Infinity has been designed with multimedia in mind, and features a 10.1-inch Super ISP+ touch screen panel with a 1920 x 1280 pixel resolution! That means that you can play back Full HD movies and HD content without any loss of quality due to video down scaling.

Asus have just announced their latest is which is now becoming a range of Transformer tablet computers. The Asus Transformer Pad 300 is the latest version of their Transformer Prime Eee Pads.

Asus has decided to drop the “Eee” from the name. The Asus Transformer Pad 300 looks very similar to the Transformer Prime, which is currently the tablet computer everyone is dying the get their hands on.

What makes the Transformer Pad 300 even more exciting is that it is reported to have a lower price tag than the Transformer Prime, but still features the Tegra 3 chip. It is also going to be available in three colors, red, white and blue.

It looks like the next generation Asus Transformer has just leaked.

A Taiwanese websites, NCCC, have a number of very convincing photos of a model named the “TF300″, bearing the Asus logo and distinctive design.

A QuieTek certification document revealed its name, so it is hard to doubt. And considering the model name for the first and second generation Transformer models were TF101, and TF201, the TF300 fits the trend for being the third generation model.

Asus was very busy at this years CES announcing a few new netbooks, and a whole lot of ultrabooks / laptops. But they did hold one back. The Asus B23E is a 12.5-inch notebook which is aimed towards business users.

While it’s not an ultrabook by true classification, it does has a Magnesium-Aluminum Alloy case which gives it a very attractive, professional and solid finish.

One of the business features that Asus has focused on with the B23E is its durability and its strength, making sure it is up to the task of been used a lot and carried around all over the place.

Asus has been a longtime supporter of Netbook, and while other companies are pulling away from them and investing their time on hopes in the new Ultrabook market, Asus are staying true to their netbook line and have just announced three new netbooks at CES 2012 for 2012.

I feel that just as netbooks are getting to a good standard with higher quality and faster processors, people are loosing attention as tablets and ultrabooks are stealing the spotlight. Either way, these there new netbooks from Asus look very nice, and consist of the Asus Eee PC 1025C (& 1025CE), 1225B and the X101CH.

Asus have just announced the brand new Asus Eee PC 1225B 11.6-inch netbook to the market. We can already tell a lot just from the name, the bump in digits indicate that it’s an updated version of the 1215, and the B at the end tells us that it makes use of AMD hardware.

The Asus 1225B (Eee PC 1225B) is an 11.6-inch netbook which is powered by AMD’s new Brazos chipset.

It will be available with two CPU options, either the AMD C60 dual core 1GHz (turbo-boost to 1.2GHz), or the dual core 1.65Hz AMD E450 APU. It supports upto 4GB of DDR3 RAM, but will probably ship with 2GB. Hard drive options start at a very healthy 320GB and go up to 500GB and 750GB capacities.

Acer have just pushed out a press release ahead of CES 2012, announcing that their Tegra 2 tablet computer, the Acer Iconia Tab A200 will go on sale in the U.S from January 15th from the very attractive price of $329.

The 10-inch Acer Tab A200 has a 1280 x 800 pixel display and is powered by the 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 dual core processor. While the tablet will initially start to ship on the 15th running Google Android 3.2 Honey comb, tech heads won’t have to worry about being behind the game, as Acer has already said that they will offer a free upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for the Acer A200.