{"id":2723,"date":"2011-06-12T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2011-06-12T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T18:09:08","slug":"tabletpcs-ereaders-asus-eee-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/12\/tabletpcs-ereaders-asus-eee-note\/","title":{"rendered":"TabletPCs, eReaders, Asus EEE Note"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s face it, Apple doesn’t care about artists anymore. If they did, they would have released a Tablet PC<\/a> many years ago. The closest thing you can get to a Tablet PC in the Apple world is Axiotron’s Modbook<\/a>, a $1849, made to order portable Cintiq. Just for reference, the EP121<\/a>, Asus latest slate Tablet PC sells for $1,100<\/a> with an i5 processor and 32Gb SSD hard drive.<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qfB8_fL9mIc[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

I am a Tablet PC fanboy and I have owned 4 or 5 HP and Toshiba Tablets in the last 6 years but with my recent travels I had to cut down on the amount of electronic I carry with me. Currently I have in my bags a two years old mid range HP laptop (DV7) which I use as a workstation, and a Samsung N110 Netbook<\/a> for my web browsing pdf reading and light computing. <\/p>\n

With nearly 10 hours of battery, the netbook is great for train\/plane trips but I am really missing digital sketching and a proper ebook reader like the Kindle would be awesome so what is the solution? Well Asus came up with a new device called the EEE Note or EA800<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So what is the deal with the EEE Note. The EEE Note is $200 only, can be recharged through a mini USB cable (no extra charger needed) works as an eBook reader and hides a Wacom board which makes it a great digital sketching software. It can sync with your PC and can also be used as a Wacom Tablet when connected to a Windows 7 computer.<\/p>\n

Check out that really interesting post on TabletPC review
\nAsus EEE Note review by an artist<\/a>. She also posted a video showing how to draw with the EEE Note.<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M9pmk9pTYrw[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

The device doesn’t seem to be available outside Asia for the moment but if enough people show interest, they might change this.<\/p>\n

I also wanted to talk about eBook readers today. My friend Richie just bought the $130 wifi version of Amazon’s kindle<\/a> and it is a really sweet device. There is also a $180 3g version that could also take a huge market share thanks to its free 3G connection. Yes you read it right, there is no rip-off monthly fee but obviously that’s only to download books from the Amazon website or check Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

I have had the silly idea of starting to read Leonardo Padura’s<\/a> latest 600 pages novel and an ebook version would have been much easier to carry around, along with my other favourite books.<\/p>\n

Also, if like me you tend to write a lot of notes or highlight text in your books this is not a problem for the Kindle supposedly. I was watching Tim Ferris latest random show and realised it is possible to highlight text on the Kindle and share this with your friends. Pretty cool I have to say.<\/p>\n

So…. Kindle 2 or Asus EEE Note \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Asus EEE Note Cebit presentation<\/a><\/p>\n

Tim Ferris random show<\/a><\/p>\n

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