Asus Takes Another Stab at Revolutionizing Netbook Market

Perhaps most well known for their netbook innovations with the Eee PC, Asus is at it again with their latest rollout at CeBIT Germany. The "Waveface Light," a new concept laptop, can be used as a conventional laptop or converted to a tablet by removing the keyboard and opening it to a completely flat position. Sounds like either a stroke of genius or a "small widget broke and now it's worthless" design issue.

You can't really revolutionise the netbook market

[CdBee]

Anything sufficiently different to be radical (in either a good or bad way) won't be considered a netbook.

Just remove the pc!

[Anonymous Coward]

The "Waveface Light," a new concept laptop can be used as a conventional laptop or converted to a tablet by removing the pc and opening it to a completely flat position.

run that by me again

Re:Indeed.

[TheKidWho]

Umm, get a $399 ION netbook problem solved?

Re:Interesting...

[sammyF70]

First it will run with a completely user-unfriendly Linux distribution (Linpus, I'm looking at you!), then people will complain about it, Asus will increase the specs and the price massively and will only sell the Win7 edition. The few who bought the original edition will tell everybody that they tried Linux and that it's complete crap without trying some *real* distro, and websites around the world will laud the new win7 edition as much better, and a proof that Linux is not fit for the desktop. Apple will then show off their new product (the iBalls) which will have less feature than anything else, will be so locked it won't be of any use whatsoever, but will have shiny glossy metal, and everyone will announce the death of the Wave Light Devices.

been there, done that

Re:Indeed.

[qoncept]

Right now an engineer at Intel is slapping his forehead and saying, out loud, "Why didn't I think of that? We should have been trying to make faster chips that use less power all along!"

Re:Indeed.

[EdZ]

So, you don't actually want a netbook (a cheap, low powered laptop for surfing the web), you just want a regular small laptop? Buy a regular small laptop then.

Re:Indeed.

[Dishevel]

The problem is that net books can game. They can play old low powered games. New games are by nature designed to push limits on desktops. Netbooks by nature are not going to be able to run these games. Some laptops may be able to run some of the newest stuff at lower resolutions and with some eye candy turned down. Netbooks are minimalist by nature. Move on.

Re:Design priming function

[AP31R0N]

My sarcasmometer must be on the fritz. Did you mean this to be funny?