ASUS Announces New Convertible Tablet Eee PC Discussion

ASUS has announced a new convertible tablet Eee PC featuring multi-touch technology, the T101MT.

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That would be prefect for the class room.

 

Intel atom? A SU7300 would have been nice. Still looks nice. Seems perfect for class (you can draw charts and stuff like that for sciences people )

 

What advantage do you think this would have over the Lenovo S10 tablet that just came out?

 

The Atom draws significantly less power than CULV processors, and tablet PC's don't really need the extra performance.

 

well they could have at least gone dual core atom?

 

Perhaps, but that's 8W for the dual core Atom compared to 2.5W for the single core. That would be a pretty significant battery life hit for extra power that the thing really doesn't need anyway. Keep in mind that the dual-core Atom 330 (like the one used in my 1201N netbook) was originally designed for low-power desktop systems, and as such doesn't have some of the same power-saving features found in notebook processors (like SpeedStep).

 

I am talking about the new pinetrail dual core, which is a true dual core and I think even lower wattage.

 

Are those even out yet?

Either way, this thing was designed before Pinetrail was released. It probably would have taken another couple months to release this tablet if they had gone with Pinetrail.

 

Isn't this using Pinetrail?

 

Umm.. isn't N450 = pinetrail?

 

pretty exciting. I'd like to replace my GF's old, dinged up 16GB HP Mini. if the price is right, I'll bite.

 

I'm rather looking forward to the ARM quad-core...

 

An interesting solution for those who want to take notes yet not lose the portability factor of a netbook. Mind you, I like my T5010, an Atom wouldn't suit my needs

 

I think I'd rather have Asus go with the Intel Moorestown Atom on this one, the successor to the Menlow that was in the T91 eee tablet.

 

Yes.

The D510. Has a TDP of 13W compared to 8W for the N330, but of course the D510 includes the Northbridge.

 

Whoops...well, goes to show you how much I know about Atoms.

 

If this fits the specs as released, you'd get 6.5 hours battery life (maybe a little more), with sleeker design and almost 0.5lb less weight (3.31 for S10-3t w/ 8 cell, 2.86 for T101MT). Granted, the S10-3t is rated for 10 hours, but most are reporting 6-9 hours.

I was really impressed with build quality on my Asus 1000HE I had for about 6 months. Hopefully this would be similar. Also, per the Asus site, the T101MT has a resistive touchscreen, vs. capacitive in the S10-3T. That may or may not be an advantage.

 

I would think in this day of multi-touch and all that stuff that capacitive would have a slight advantage. I have read if both are calibrated right resistive screens are a bit more accurate(when it comes to pointing and touching) vs capacitive, so that could be the case here?

 

The one thing I would find useful about a resistive screen is being able to use your fingernail/fingertip for more accuracy (like on my smartphone/older tablets), whereas I've heard that doesn't work on capacitive. As far as I know, you can't do multi-touch on resistive, though...so maybe Asus wrote special drivers or else the specs page is partially incorrect?

 

I think you can do multi-touch on resistive screens, but you need I think drivers and a screen capable of understanding the touch. I have used resistive screen for years on pocket pcs and smartphones, and now have a capacitive Android phone and in terms of comfort capacitive wins, accuracy is a wash, and multi-touch really isn't that big of a deal to me. Now on a larger screen like the S10-3t vs the Acer T101MT that could be a totally different story.

 

I'm greatly interested in this discussion.
I haven't ever really heard the discussion of capacitive vs resistive as I'm new to the world of touch screens. I'm just researching and considering making this my first touch screen device when its released next month in the US.
Is it that resistive is more accurate at single touch but capacitive does multi-touch better? I don't think multi-touch is as important except to make the on screen keyboard better and pinch to zoom which doesn't need a whole lot of accuracy.
I also think the Asus* t101mt is a much more attractive machine than the s10-3t.
I have been doing my research a little bit and was trying to figure out what processors could be swapped out. Can all pineview processors be swapped with eachother? Like if you wanted to take a huge hit in battery life would it be possible to stick a D510 in this computer? I wonder if putting a processor with twice the watts of the one the device is made to hold would produce too much heat and burn up the machine. I know its possible to do atoms in fanless design but twice the watts sounds like a lot.
Also the D510 allows up to 4gb of ram while the N450/470 only allow for 2gb. Would swapping out the processor allow you to add more RAM?
I think it would be an interesting mod to put the D510, an SSD, and then pixelqi is made claims of DIYkits in Q2, all in this one very attractive small package. The SSD and the pixelqi screen could reduce the power consumption to try to make up for the added power consumption of the D510.
Edit:
Ok, according to the Intel site, the N450 and the D510 are both embedded making it hard to impossible to swap them out as they would be soldered into place. The N470 claims to not be embedded so maybe if you were able to find a D510 by itself and got the upgraded version it could be done? Or would you have to solder in the D510 making it impossible? So maybe my idea isn't possible to do all the way.

 

Hmm ... seems a good machine for taking notes, but that is about it. For my personal taste I like a little more horsepower in a cpu, that is, I like the notebook to be able to do a few more things ... but it looks very nice as a note-taking machine.