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Generally when we talk about integrated GPUs, it’s with a sniff. Onboard graphics? Please. They can’t even handle Windows’ visual effects, much less Call of Duty’s. This new motherboard from…

Notebook and netbook maker Asus is pre-installing the Amazon Kindle for PC application, allowing Asus owners to access Amazon’s selection of e-books without having to suffer through the pain of…

What do you do with a laptop when you’re done with it? That’s an actual question being that the only laptop I owned before my current old man MacBook is…

Moments ago, in our chatroom, I said that, if I had the money, I’d buy two Asus Rampage III Extreme motherboards: one to use and one to hang on the…

My goodness. Talk about a long product development cycle. We first saw a working demo of the Asus Eee Keyboard 17 months ago at CES 2009 and it just now…

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Official Eee Keyboard specs revealed

1:30 am PDT • May 4, 2010

After over a year of delays, promises, and waiting, we finally know what’s going to be in the Eee Keyboard. Has it been too long? Is it too late for…

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EEE PC 1218 leaks, and wins awards

1:00 am PDT • May 1, 2010

Asus leaked their own product this time, by revealing that their newest secret project, the Eee PC 1218. The details are sketchy of course, but what we can see looks…

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Asus Eee Pad coming in July

7:30 pm PDT • April 23, 2010

We’re about to see another manufacturer throw their hat into the Tablet PC ring. ASUS is expected to show out their EeePad in June at Computex, with a July launch…

This is the greatest motherboard that has ever lived. It’s the Asus Rampage III Extreme, and it’s designed for people who do insane things like run three video cards simultaneously…

Fancy keyboard is fancy.

It’s been a long time since we first met, Eee Keyboard. You’ve changed a lot. Well, not that much. But you’re not quite as compelling as you were in early…

The ATI Radeon HD 5970 is essentially two 5870s slapped together, but underclocked a little bit so as not to melt a hole through your carpet (but will melt a…

The new 1001PX from Asus isn’t particularly noteworthy spec-wise. 250GB hard drive, 1.66GHz Atom processor… you know the drill. But it’s got a matte screen! I really don’t understand why…

USB 3.0 is quickly on the road to becoming a standard issue item and Asus is helping it along in a big way. The computer manufacturer just announced that its…

The Asus Designo monitor line was already hot with its striking good looks but the series just got a whole lot more enticing thanks to LED backlighting.

Surround sound bars are generally about the width of a 42-inch flat panel, which is perfect if you have a large TV. But Asus now has a solution for smaller…

Now we’re cooking with a substance that appears to be similar in smell, flame size, and cost per energy unit as “gas.” Asus’ impending Eee PC 1005PR is a 10.1-inch…

You’ve been sitting there looking and looking at that horrible little while box that your assistant says is a “wireless rooter” and you are disgusted that this horrible thing has…

It seems a little odd that we first saw the Eee Keyboard at CES 2009 and it’s still not available. The demo that we played with at least seemed like…

The Kindle DX better watch its back. There’s a new 9-inch ebook reader on the bus. The Asus DR-900 offers nearly everything that makes the Kindle DX special, a 9-inch…

Sascha Pallenberg of Netbook News managed to get his hands on the aluminum ASUS Eee PC 1080P while at the CeBIT conference and called it “by far the most solid…

We noted a few weeks ago that Asus would be putting out a sweet tablet during Computex Taipei, and now the internet is all a-twitter after their CEO re-confirmed this.…

Asus’s monsterious 17.3-inch G73 gaming notebook made a splash at CES but American availablity and pricing wasn’t mentioned. Good news though. Newegg’s selling ’em right now and you want one.

Kudos, I guess, to Asus, being the first manufacturer to incorporate Nvidia’s Optimus technology into actual products. The Taiwan-based company has announced five laptops (note: I refuse to use the…

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Asus beat to EEE Keyboard market by knockoff

4:00 am PST • January 26, 2010

Bad news for Asus, the EEE Keyboard that still hasn’t been released yet was beaten to market by a clone. The knockoff version is made by the Chinese company Great…

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More pics of the Asus e-reader

3:30 pm PST • January 22, 2010

While this will probably look primitive as heck in a few days, it’s fun to see Asus giving it their all in the ebook market. After all, we all need…

You guys like tablets? And Tegra? Well according to DigiTimes, “Asustek Computer plans to unveil a tablet PC based on Nvidia’s Tegra processor at Computex Taipei 2010.” That conference runs…

Asus leaked some information recently about their upcoming e-reader, the DR-570. Not content to be a “me too” with the standard black and white e-ink product, it looks like they…

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Quick Look: ASUS GF73 laptop

5:55 pm PST • January 5, 2010

The GF73 isn’t much to write home about but it’s a nice little gaming machine. It’s styled after the Stealth Bomber, whatever that means.

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Quick Look: ASUS NX90

5:31 pm PST • January 5, 2010

The ASUS NX90 looks like a monster. It has a full sized keyboard surrounded by a field of polished aluminum. There is no visible trackpad – just the metal –…