A few days ago, commercial series notebooks and two netbooks from Asus won Red Dot Design awards. The Red Dot design award is one of the largest and famous international design competitions in the world. To win the award, submitted products must meet several criteria like the degree of innovation, functionality, ergonomics, quality, durability and ecological impact of the product set by an international jury that reviews and evaluates them.
Along with Asus Eee PC Seashell 1015 netbook, the other mysterious and yet unannounced model appeared on Asus’s design website as Asus Eee PC 1218, the first from the new ultra-slim netbook series. Asus Eee PC 1218 has a case made entirely from aluminum, is an ultra-thin netbook and will be available so far in two color options: silver and black. The keyboard is housed inside a single sheet of aluminum that forms the palm rest as well as the frame. In order to protect your privacy the webcam has a shutter that can by slides down if needed.
How many times did you rest your hands on both sides of the laptop and almost broken the USB stick that was plugged there? Myself never broken one, but I surely bent a few. Asus places the array of ports on the back side of the Eee PC 1218 and this will prevent the situation I described above. But if you use to quickly plug different devices, than this doesn’t prove to be very efficient, this can be fixed by using a USB hub anyway.
The ports we can find are 3 x USB (hopefully at least one would be USB 3.0), Ethernet port, VGA port, and we hope for a HDMI one as well. Asus Eee PC 1218 will have a 12-inch display, just like the name suggested it, and a chiclet keyboard which tends to become a standard these days. We will surely find out more about it soon enough, because Computex 2010 isn’t very far away.
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