Asus Has a 'Secret Weapon' Against iPad 2

[exfileme]

Asustek chairman Jonney Shih said the company has a "secret weapon." Should we be scared?

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[styrkes]

Well if you can play Crysis 2 on the little tegra 2, then that'll be a good secret weapon against the iPad 2.

 

[ProDigit10]

I thought that would have been the EeeSlate, with corei5 qm processor (dualcore at 1,3Ghz,1,8Ghz turbo),2gig ram, and 32GB SSD.
Anyway, haven't seen any links from toms yet.

http://promos.asus.com/US/ASUS_EeeSlate/index.htm

 

[LePhuronn]

Needs to be made from glass and Aluminium in order to even get noticed. Seriously.

Then make it functional - nobody trusts the cloud yet, so give us USB and SD slots and make it about 10" in size.

Match everything the iPad has, improve upon it and then undercut the price.

Shiny will draw the general consumer's attention, genuine functionality will draw everybody else, and then a respectable and honest (doesn't have to be cheap) price tag will get sales.

 

[rantsky]

Asus knows how to be cool.

That's neat

 

[ulysses35]

ASUS gets my vote... none of this apple BS that gets replaced every five minutes because they "forgot" to iron out some of the previous bugs.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

asus is good at what it does. probably he does have something secret.

 

[milktea]

Give us at least 720p resolution with Super AMOLED-2. That will definitely blow iPad2 or even iPad3... out the window.

 

[fyasko]

why? why must vendors insist on implementing or even talking about 3d? 3d is nothing more than a marketing tool for the masses... it has failed and will fail again(consumer level stereoscopic 3d has been around since 98' on pc's) keep improving resolutions beyond 1080, 3d isn't something people want to see in the living room 24/7...

 

[beayn]

[citation][nom]fyasko[/nom]why? why must vendors insist on implementing or even talking about 3d? 3d is nothing more than a marketing tool for the masses... it has failed and will fail again(consumer level stereoscopic 3d has been around since 98' on pc's) keep improving resolutions beyond 1080, 3d isn't something people want to see in the living room 24/7...[/citation]
3D is the latest buzzword. Everyone has to cash in on it. Yesterday it was Titanium, today it's 3d. Hell, I saw "3d whitening toothpaste" at Walmart today... wtf?

 

[id10terror]

I need to run multiple OS environments on my mobility computing device. Singular device please. XPpro, Win7pro, IOS, Solaris. Such a tablet would have me squeeling with twitterpated glee

 

[slothy89]

[citation][nom]id10terror[/nom]I need to run multiple OS environments on my mobility computing device. Singular device please. XPpro, Win7pro, IOS, Solaris. Such a tablet would have me squeeling with twitterpated glee[/citation]
iOS on anything other than an Apple device? I'd like to see that. Let alone multi-boot lol.. Isnt that something note/netbooks are for?
Also win7pro on a tablet is asking for failure... Unless you tweak the hell out of it to optimize the power/processor usage. My 8" eeePc struggled with win7..

 

[bsbsbsbs]

Hey Kevin, how many times did you want to write Shit instead of Shih? ;-)

Jooney Shit. Asus Shit. :-D

 

[STravis]

[citation][nom]id10terror[/nom]I need to run multiple OS environments on my mobility computing device. Singular device please. XPpro, Win7pro, IOS, Solaris. Such a tablet would have me squeeling with twitterpated glee[/citation]

Your needs are such a niche market that nobody really cares. If you really need to run all those different OSes then a mobile device isn't the way to go. A VM with VNC is the way to go and my understanding is that you can already do that on an iPad.

 

[eddieroolz]

Strangely, I believe this man. ASUS has a very good impression on my mind, and I believe they can live up to their promise.

 

[cirdecus]

I think that the Tegra 2 is a great hardware platform for the device, but I'm afraid they may be too focused on beating the iPad 2 in terms of hardware.

Hardware isn't whats making the iPad so popular, its the software. If they want to win a battle with the iPad 2, then they're going to have to do it on the software side as well.

Android is a good open OS platform, but it lacks the harmony between hardware and software that apple has created with its iOS platform. An iPad killer should have the same harmony between hardware/software and the same fluent interface and ease of use as the iPad. If they can accomplish this with a more open and desktop friendly OS, then finding better hardware will be the easy part. My suggestion is to either use windows 7 for its openess and use widgets and custom software to make it fluent or use a custom droid kernel.

Either way, if they keep trying to push more mega-pixels, more processor, more memory, the consumer market isn't going to care.