Asus semi-officially reveals ultrathin MeeGo netbook
At Computex 2011 in Taipei last month, there was a significant amount of movement stirring in the MeeGo camp. The fully open source mobile operating system from Intel was being shown off on An Acer Iconia tablet, as well as on notebooks from PC makers Lenovo, Samsung, and Asus.
Earlier in July, an FCC filing from Taiwanese PC maker and netbook pioneer Asus showed that its MeeGo-powered X101 could possibly be coming to the United States
Thursday, Asus posted a listing for the X101, officially known as Eee PC X101, which runs on a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom N435 or N455 Processor, 1GB of DDR3 RAM, has a 10.1" (1024 x 600) backlit LED screen, an 8GB SATA SSD, a VGA webcam, 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0, and measures only .69" in thickness, just .01" thicker than the newest Macbook Air models, and .05" thinner than Asus' U36, which the company billed last month as the "world's thinnest notebook" running Intel Core i5.
The Eee PC X101 has not been priced yet, nor has availability officially been announced. Furthermore, the version of MeeGo it will run has not been specified, but Asus' profile page shows that the device will come packed with Google Chrome, the British Council English Language Learning application, the Asus @vibe cloud app, as well as a Dropbox cloud storage app with 2GB of free storage.