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Asus has launched its MacBook Air-style Eee PC 1008HA in Taiwan, and will do it all over again over here early next week, Register Hardware has learned. Asus Eee 1008HA Asus' Eee 1008HA: Air inspired? The skinny netbook measures between 18 and 26mm top to bottom, has a footprint of 262 x 178 and weighs 1.1kg - one of the …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    Shouldn't it be

    Seeeshell!

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  2. Goat Jam
    Paris Hilton

    Lazy "reporters"

    Why do reporters always seem make comparisons using different units?

    Golly, this 26mm thick Asus is up against the inch thick Acer.

    WTF? Why don't you do the conversion instead of forcing god knows how many thousands of you readers to do it for you?

    Paris wouldn't even notice an inch thick one I'm sure

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    comment on the thinness..

    you refer to this as 'skinny'

    surely you mean 'skineee'

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  4. David Gosnell
    Coat

    If they bring back the bird...

    She sells Eee Shells on the sea shore

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  5. alain williams Silver badge

    What OS

    Have they had the sense to offer Linux as an option again, or perhaps a machine w/out an OS ?

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  6. Nigel

    Screen resolution?

    Anyone know the screen res? 1024x600 like the other EeePCs, or something better like the Mac it's imitating?

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  7. graham

    UK pricing

    Amazon UK have it for £379 on pre-order, or you can go for Laptops Direct and pony up £399. Maybe you could have done some research in addition to kindly reprinting the press release from Asus.

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  8. Big Bear

    Why the Air comparison

    Is it purely due to its thinness? Otherwise there are no similarities... one is a proper computer, the other is a Mac (boom boom!). Seriously though, they are completely different and aimed at different segments with completely different levels of capability...

    Air is in the same group as the Voodoo Envy, Thinkpad X300 and Vaio TT or Z; this Eee is in with the S101 and NC10.

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  9. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    See shells she sells on the she shore

    You have a story about (a) an Asus product (b) that's called "Seashell", and you don't use the photograph of the Asus Eee beach babe? What's wrong with you? This isn't The Register I know and love.

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  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    @Goat Jam

    Probably because 1" is 25.4mm

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  11. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    3 seashells?

    Calling your notebooks/netbooks this brings a whole new meaning to Demolition Man? Still can't quite work out how stalone would have used this.

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