The Taste and The Touch

The Taste and The Touch Kamote Review of ASUS EEEPC T101 Multi Touch

Asus Eee PC T101MT Technical Specifications:

• DUAL Operating System: Genuine Windows 7 Starter and ASUS GATEWAY (8 seconds boot up)
  
• Display: 10.1″ LED Backlight/ Resistive Multi-Touch Panel (1024×600)
• Intel CPU & Chipset: Intel Atom N450 (1.66 GHZ)
• Memory: Starter – 1GB DDR3
• Wireless: Data Network 802.11b/g/n @2.4GHz
  Bluetooth2.1 + EDR
• Storage: 660GB Hybrid Storage
  
• Webcam: 0.3M Pixels
• Audio: Hi-Definition Audio CODEC
  Stereo Speakers
  High Quality Mic
• Input / Output: 1 x VGA Port (D-sub 15-pin for external monitor)
  3 x USB 2.0, 1 x LAN RJ-45
  2 x Audio Jack (Head Phone / Mic-in)
  Card Reader: MMC/SD supported SDHC capacity up to 32GB SDXC, in High Speed (HS) and Default Speed (DS) modes, and max. capacity up to 2TB
• Battery: 6.5 hrs, 35Wh Slim and Eco-friendly Li-polymer Battery
• Dimensions: 264mm (W) x 181mm (D) x 31mm (H)
• Weight: 1.3 Kg (2.86lbs)
• Colour: Black

The Taste and The Touch Kamote Review of ASUS EEEPC T101 Multi Touch

The EEEPC T101 is not just a netbook with a touchscreen, but a device with a combination of solid ergonomics and performance in clamshell mode that can swivel into a really responsive tablet, that is the first netvertible to go MULTI-TOUCH.

Design

A convertible brick. It is shaped like a chopping board, with a twist and turn it transforms into a tablet pc, another twist it transforms into a netbook, and another twist turns back into a portable chopping board. The good point about the design is people will think that it is not worth stealing.

The Touch

The touchscreen is responsive and comes with a stylus which is a great help for people with large fingers considering that we only have a 10.1 inch screen to play with and Windows 7 has small icons.

The digital touch calibration is a miss, you always miss one point in the calibration which messes up the touch experience. Sometimes I find myself off axis so I had to adjust my sitting position.


Asus probably had their reasons but the first netbook/tablet to go multi-touch is also the first not to support multi-touch. Why? It's because the pre-installed Windows 7 doesn't support multi-touch, but the good thing is that EEEPC T101 has a DUAL OS, the other OS does support multi-touch.

The Press

 The T101MT has the matte, chiclet keyboard, which has thankfully is very ergonomical. Overall, it's fairly comfortable, though the shrunken right Shift key caused us to mistakenly hit some other keys at times.The touchpad is responsive as with other netbooks, it is large and navigation on pages is no problem with the multi-touch.

Battery Life would Even Outlast your Workmate

Performance and Battery Life

With all the hardware requirements of a multi-touch capable netvertible tablet/netbook you might expect it to as slow as a decade old computer running Windows 7, well no, its quite fast. The T101MT's 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor and 1GB of memory provided adequate performance even with 6 applications running and it is in tablet mode.

The battery life goes beyond the life of a four cell battery lasting for 6.5 hours. I tried watching movies while downloading from the internet and it still lasted for four hours and 35 minutes.

In Summary

In today's market of portable gadgets, this is probably on top of the food chain in its category. Compared to Lenovo's IdeaPad S10-3t the EEEPC T101 is awesome.

The ASUS EEPC T101MT comes bundled with an ASUS External Slim DVD-RW