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June 13th, 2009

Asus tablet: another ereader possibility?

By Paul Biba

From Liliputing. Fold it over into a tablet and then it would make a much nicer ereader than any of the netbooks today. They are saying a 5 hour battery life.

t91-tablet.jpgAsus has published a US product page for the upcoming Eee PC T91 convertible tablet style netbook. This will be the first mini-laptop from the company with a touchscreen display that can fold down over the keyboard for use in tablet mode.

The Eee PC T91 has an 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display. The version that ships with Windows XP will reportedly have a resistive touchscreen, which means single-touch only. But word on the street is that the version that ships with Windows 7 later this year will include a capacitive display capable of recognizing multiple inputs to take advantages of the gesture and multitouch support in Windows 7.

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