ASUS Eee Tablet - Replacing Your Standard Composition Book?

[Chris Gohlke]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/31/asus-eee-tablet/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/31/...sus-eee-tablet/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Don't call it the Eee Pad, this is ASUS' Eee Tablet -- a digital notebook with a 2,450 dpi touchscreen and lickity quick 0.1 second page turns on a backlight-less TFT-LCD offering 64-levels of grey. As such, ASUS is calling its Eee Tablet one of the world's most accurate and sensitive note taking devices available."</em></p><p><em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1275526096.usr10.jpg" style="border: 0;" /></em></p><p>Depending on your subject of study and your particular note taking style, a traditional computer may not be the best note taking tool for you. &nbsp;I'm one of those people. &nbsp;I tried a tablet PC for a while and really hated the software experience, plus found the price of entry too high if I'd been paying for it myself rather than my employer as part of a pilot program. &nbsp;This ebook reader and notepad combo could solve that problem if the OS is right and with a price somewhere between $199 and $299, I might need to check this out.</p>

[Tony Rylow]

I've been looking for a tablet to play around with, and at that price this might work quite nicely.

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

I'm more interested in that screen. 2450 DPI? What kind of LCD is this? :eek:

[Reid Kistler]

Specs on the Asus tablet appear to be open to revision - farther down in the Engadget article they mention an "8-inch 1024 x 768 pixel" display - and (p)reviews have not been universally kind to the current feature set.

Overall, this still seems like a risky product category to buy into, unless your primary usage will be media consumption....

[Chris Gohlke]

I'm reading it that the touchscreen has a much higher resolution than the viewing screen portion of it. So I'm not quite sure how this is going to work out, but this isn't a media consumption device, it is greyscale. It is a non-epaper ebook reader with a touchscreen input for taking notes, so I'm looking at it as a textbook and notebook replacement.