By With tablets leading the attack from the left and with smartphones closing in from the right one can easily assume the years of the netbook are soon to end.
Well, while that may be the case at the moment, if the Taiwanese at Asus have their way and their partnership with Google pays off the tides can be turned.
Asus is one of the market leaders in netbook land with their EEEPC simply flying out of stores but that doesn’t seem to be enough for them.
Chrome OS Asus EEEPC
In a recent partnership with the biggest search engine out there, Asus have announced that they plan to create a new device with a special trick up its sleeve.
The new Asus netbook won’t change the world as far as specifications are concerned and yet it promises some impressive speed.
How is that possible? If we were talking cars, it would be lightweight but since we’re talking laptops it may as well be different.
Weirdly, the speed promises of the future Asus netbook come from the light OS that feeds on the slim resources.
Asus EEEPC
The OS would be either Google Chrome (here’s a dream come true for them) or Android 3.0, the version of Android that was designed with tablets in mind.
Either of these Google powered solutions should provide what is labeled as “enough” performance without too much hardware.
That means that Asus can keep the final cost of their new netbook low. Low enough to really make a difference, we’re promised somewhere between 200 and 250 dollars a piece.
For this sort of price, not only is the Asus EEEPC follow-up half as cheap as any tablet out there it’s also much cheaper than many cellphones that aren’t “smart”.
In case you’re wondering why go for Google Chrome or Android it’s simple, Google Chrome is favored because it was designed to work with full keyboards where as Android wasn’t.
