Thursday, February 21, 2008

Kojinsha's E8 UMPC Is Tablet Competitor for EEE PC [Sub-notebook]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/238742888/kojinshas-e8-umpc-is-tablet-competitor-for-eee-pc

kojinshae8.jpgClearly aiming for the same market as the EEE PC, Kojinsha's new E8 UMPC has the added bonus of being a touchscreen tablet. It does, however, beat me how the Korean-made E8 is being labelled by some as a UMPC—it looks more like a sub-notebook to me.

The E8 runs Windows XP, has an AMD Geode LX800 CPU under the hood along with a 40GB hard drive, and its seven inch screen has 1024 x 600-pixel resolution. It's also got stereo speakers, a single USB port, memory card slot (we don't know what sort) and apparently 3.5 hours of battery life. Sounding like quite a competitor for the little Asus, the E8 is available Februrary 29th for about $600. [Aving.net]