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Asus Eee PC T91 Tablet Review

The Eee PC T91 is Asus’ first tablet netbook and while it’s not really the first one in this category (Gigabyte did the M912 tablet netbook last year), Asus is looking to revive the trend of the tablet PC.

At 8.9 inch, the Asus T91 is an appropriately sized tablet — pretty light but not too small. It has a glossy, black finish that makes it look elegant and classy (in the same league as the Asus Seashell series).Think of this as a smaller, thinner and lighter 1000HE with a swivel hinge instead of stilts.

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The keyboard is tightly packed and though the keys a bit small, they’re the chiclet-type so touch-typing isn’t too hard to do. The trackpad has been improved as well although there’s no separation between the left and right click buttons.

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Powering the Eee PC T91 is the cooler Atom Z520 running at 1.33GHz (same CPU as the Sony Vaio P VGN-P13GH and the Acer Aspire One AO751) with a 1GB DDR2 RAM (upgradeable to 2GB) so don’t expect it to be speedy when launching programs. Good thing it’s pre-installed with Windows XP rather than Vista. With the 1.33GHz Z520, CPU performance is evident when running them between XP, Vista and Windows 7 (see my reviews on the other ultraportables with the same CPU).

The 8.9″ touchscreen has a resolution of 1024×768 pixels and not the usual 1024×600 in its class. Asus should also make its other 10-inch netbooks in the same resolution. The tablet also comes with a stylus tucked at the front side corner.

The LED screen is supported by a single hinge at the center that swivels a full 180-degrees and flips down to transform into the tablet form. The touch sensitivity is good enough but not that pretty accurate (you’ll need to do some calibrations first).

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The T91 also comes with a separate Touch UI which you can launch from XP or via a dedicated slider button at the bottom left side of the screen. It’s a collection of softwares (TouchSuite) that’s made for specific touch functions like notepad, memo, photos and browsing.

The storage is a 16GB SSD and not the typical big-sized hard drives (the 80GB to 160GB) and while that might have contributed to the lightness of the netbook, I still think the 16GB is big enough.

There’s Bluetooth 2.1 and WiFi 802.11n but did not see the optional GPS, TV Tuner of 3G modem Asus say you can equip it with. As for the battery life, I think I’m getting around 4 something hours although Asus claims it tops at 5 hours, which is not bad.

No word on the final retail price yet but my guess is that this one could fetch a price tag of around Php25 to Php30k.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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  2. Avatar for Edwin C Edwin C says:

    Yuga, puede ba mag-browser dito gamit lang iyong tablet form niya. Ibig ko sabihin, meron ba siyang on-screen keyboard?

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  4. Avatar for ali ali says:

    available na nga po ba ito? last time i went to asus shop in SM North Edsa, di pa raw sila sure kung kelan. pa-share naman po kung may nakita na kayo nito. email is darth_ali at yahoo dot com. Thanks!

  5. Avatar for RENCE RENCE says:

    saan po ba nkkbili ng ASUS T91? gusto ko kasing bumili, pls help me naman.
    thanks..

  6. Avatar for jose jose says:

    i will buy this if it is fitted with 4 cores and at least 500GB ih ih ih

  7. Avatar for http://makabayan.org.ph http://makabayan.org.ph says:

    Tablet PCs IMO use resource hog applications used in animations and design applications for its “canvas feel”.

    Atom and 1GB Ram? I dont think so.

    I wonder why they made this?

  8. Avatar for http://makabayan.org.ph http://makabayan.org.ph says:

    Will this hang too? Like the Lenovo S10-2, random hangs.

  9. Avatar for Karloboy Karloboy says:

    Can be a good mountable car computer… unless the touch ui is just pen based… although… 16 GB is … :(

  10. Avatar for dongkidoodles dongkidoodles says:

    Apple Tablet is just around the corner

  11. Avatar for Gams Gams says:

    Not quite attractive!I’ll keep my Acer Aspire.

  12. Avatar for william william says:

    the memory is so little

  13. Avatar for saleb saleb says:

    that looks sleek

  14. Avatar for John Ray Cabrera John Ray Cabrera says:

    why can’t they just slap a 160GB into this unit.

  15. Avatar for John Ray Cabrera John Ray Cabrera says:

    oh yes, Sony produced awesome products at an aweful price.

  16. Avatar for Raven Raven says:

    @reel advice
    yah! T0oo small!

  17. Avatar for Reel Advice Reel Advice says:

    On the contrary, I think 16GB is to small for my taste! :(

  18. Avatar for bertsan531 bertsan531 says:

    yes, nice looks and if mr. yuga is right regarding the estimated price it is really nice buy

  19. Avatar for Dale Dale says:

    Nice specs and probably price. But why can’t they just put “Asus” as the main logo rather than “Eee”?

    Still thinking about buying my dream Lappy:
    http://www.sony.com.ph/product/vgn-tz36gn

    Price is quite steep @ 119k. Will prolly look for other dealers selling this at a much cheaper price.

    Dale
    mp3-codes.com

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