ASUS vaguely hints at alternative Eee design factors

May 24th, 2008 | Category: Pdas / Tablet Pcs

ASUS isn’t being shy about its plan for global Eee domination, and it sounds like the company is exploring expanding beyond the laptop and desktop scheme factors we’ve already seen. Speaking to Current.com.au, ASUS Australia retail manager Emmanuele Silanesu said that ASUS’s Eee group is “obviously looking at other design factors rather than just a clamshell,” but wouldn’t confirm anything — and just to form things even hazier, Silanesu said that a forthcoming touchscreen machine from ASUS might not carry the Eee branding. That’s just about as vague as it gets, but we’re in agreement with UMPC Portal that ASUS has plenty of low-power, low-cost UMPCs on the shelf (like the R2E pictured above) that could easily be made by to fit with the Eee line. We’ll see when we see — Silanesu hinted that something was due to seem

at Computex in June.

[Via UMPC Portal]

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Original post by Nilay Patel