Comments on: We thought Intel Core Duo was confirmed on Asus

By: ECS UMPCs to sport Intel Pentium M at UMPC | Ultra Mobile PC

ECS UMPCs to sport Intel Pentium M at UMPC | Ultra Mobile PC — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:18:01 +0000

[...] You know when there are only few (rather only 2 as of now) choices to choose from, things are always difficult, especially if you want the best one out there and you know if you wait for a few months you’ll have more powereful devices. Again Asus might have very close spec to the ECS with the Core Duo Yes, ECS announced their H-70, and looks like it would have the option of upgrading your UMPC to have the ULV 1.0 GHz Pentium M. Note that with the 6-Cell battery the company is promising a 4.5 Hours of life The H70 uses Intel’s 915GMS chipset backed up with either an ULV voltage 900MHz Celeron or an ULV 1.0GHz Pentium M processor and features a 7″ WVXGA (800×480) touch sensitive TFT LCD. The H70 also packs two USB 2.0 ports, 802.11b/g wireless connectivity, Bluetooth 1.2, a 4-in-1 flash media reader and a 1.3MP webcam. [...]

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Sat, 03 Jun 2006 19:34:30 +0000

[...] We thought Intel Core Duo was confirmed on AsusJust came across the article on jkOnTheRun that Asus might be coming out with Intel Core Duo, but we wondered why the specualtion when ASUS seems to have promised it already. Well Asus has not yet announced a clear spec anyways. … [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:01:33 +0000

May be it is not, Asus has to place themselves in the market well. With Samsung already in market for about $1200, though asus has a better built and some added features along with a good processor i’m thinking it would be around the same price. May be they’ll make those processor upgrades an option.

By: Carsten

Carsten — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:56:38 +0000

unfortunately this sounds like the Asus would be even more expensive than the q1 . Even though a fingerprintreader would be interestin for an easy authentification. passwords using an on screen keyboard are a real pain…