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ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« on: May 14, 2009, 12:55:23 PM »

The dream of owning a keyboard embedded with a full-blown PC running XP on an Atom N270 processor and 5-inch, 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen display/trackpad is nearly upon us. A dream, quite honestly, nobody had prior to seeing the reveal of the 2-pound Eee Keyboard prototype at CES in January.

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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2009, 01:34:55 PM »
Sounds like a MAC.

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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2009, 01:49:45 PM »
That's already been done.
It will flop.
Think of commodore 64 (Image from news.cnet.com)


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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2009, 02:22:26 PM »
Hehe yeah Geek-9pm. Story also reminded me of my first computer, the Atari 1040ST.

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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2009, 04:55:49 PM »
Bringing back the Old Skool!


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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2009, 07:32:46 PM »
Bringing back the Old Skool!
N0. We're bringing in the 1337 5ch001.
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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2009, 07:59:12 PM »
the difference is- this new one will have the screen integrated to the keyboard- and smaller as well. Much like a tablet PC but with a smaller screen and built-in keyboard.


N0. We're bringing in the 1337 5ch001.

heh, the funny part about "leet" speak is that people that use it obviously have no clue what it implies. It doesn't imply anything good, I might add.


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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2009, 08:18:00 PM »
It doesn't imply anything good, I might add.

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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2009, 08:38:48 PM »
That's pretty amazing.

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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2009, 08:57:34 PM »
I bet these will be faster then both the atari AND the commodore 64!  ;D


H4x0r. The supposed language of hackers. It's truly the language of 5kĄddĄ35.

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It's not a "language", it's a ridiculous shorthand invented by people whose mommies and daddies thought they were geniuses because they wrote 8008i35 on their calculators. It went downhill from there.


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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2009, 06:06:54 PM »
I bet these will be faster then both the atari AND the commodore 64!  ;D


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It's not a "language", it's a ridiculous shorthand invented by people whose mommies and daddies thought they were geniuses because they wrote 8008i35 on their calculators. It went downhill from there.



Please note the word SUPPOSED in my post...and you absolutely correct.
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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2009, 11:32:17 PM »
the difference is- this new one will have the screen integrated to the keyboard- and smaller as well. Much like a tablet PC but with a smaller screen and built-in keyboard.
Integrated? Really?
I can visualize a keyboard on one side and the screen on the other.
Type a paragraph, then look on the back side to see what you wrote.
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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2009, 12:12:14 AM »
integrated in the same way the screen of the original imac is part of the system itself.
I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2009, 03:57:00 AM »
Ok... that's gotta be the most completely useless thing I've ever seen from ASUS in their Eee line. I thought the Sony VGN-UX180P was useless, but this is even worse.

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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2009, 05:01:01 AM »
Ok... that's gotta be the most completely useless thing I've ever seen from ASUS in their Eee line. I thought the Sony VGN-UX180P was useless, but this is even worse.

I'm leaning towards you on this although I'd like to see some reviews when it's actually released. If done properly they could potentially be on to something for those people who want to simply have an Internet computer up in their kitchen or something similiar.
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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2009, 09:38:30 AM »
I'm leaning towards you on this although I'd like to see some reviews when it's actually released. If done properly they could potentially be on to something for those people who want to simply have an Internet computer up in their kitchen or something similiar.

I can think of a lot better option than this for that though. The screen is entirely too small to be of any real use. Image how small a web page would be on that size of a screen, and even if you zoom the amount of scrolling you would have to do to view everything. You might as well get an iPAQ or something similar and a Bluetooth keyboard. At least then it would be usable on the go as well, as the Eee keyboard doesn't have a battery. Even the screen size would be the same and it would still be a touch screen. I just can't think of any practical use for a device like this.

The position of the screen to the right (or even if it were on the left) is completely unnatural and would be a pain in the neck (literally) after a short period of use. If the screen were larger and in the center (as it should be) it would just be a laptop, so why not by a laptop? If you plug in an external monitor to the Eee keyboard, you might as well just get a laptop or a small form factor PC.

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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2009, 01:30:23 PM »
I tend to agree with Quaxo on this...a waste of time and resources...
However there are enough Housewives and teens that will gobble up the first models so it could still be a commercial success...
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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2009, 02:34:12 PM »
I would hope / imagine that an external display could be connected to the keyboard, in which case it'd be like a regular computer except that the computer would be in the keyboard. If that was the case you wouldn't have to use the display on the keyboard and it's likely it could be use for alternative means.
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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2009, 03:03:29 PM »
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ship in June with specs that should include a 32GB SSD, 802.11n, Bluetooth, HDMI-out, stereo speakers and mic


HDMI out is video, correct?

Have you all forgotten from whence we came??

My first computer had a forty megabyte hard drive, and it was two to four times larger than anyone else's I knew at the time.

I'm usually the one who grouses and complains about stuff, so I guess my complaint is:  When the heck did the rest of you become so jaded and cynical? 

Is it an 'uber' system?  No, of course not -- it's the first step toward something else -- just as the Commodore was a first step toward what we have today.

It's light-years beyond the Commodore 64, and I almost admire the laziness of people who compare the two -- when there was a time we were "geeked" to have a Commodore 64. 

I'm not stating you have to even like it just because it exists, but to call it a waste of time and resources?  Please...


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Re: ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June
« Reply #19 on: June 03, 2009, 10:47:59 PM »
I think that display would be a good place for a touch-pad.