Asus Flashes Pearly Whites with Sea-Shell-Inspired Eee

By Nick Mokey March 3, 2009

Asus Flashes Pearly Whites with Sea-Shell-Inspired Eee

While other companies are turning their netbooks into Transformers, Asus is continuing down the road toward more compact, more powerful netbooks, and adding some style along the way. On Tuesday the company used CeBIT to unveil its Eee 1008HA netbook, known informally as the Sea Shell.

As they did with the S101, Asus designers have concentrated on increasing the netbook’s sex appeal with the 1008HA’s sea-shell inspired pearlescent paint job. Given this white finish and slim, rounded-edge profile, it might even be mistaken for a shrunken MacBook Air in passing.

As the model number would suggest, the 1008HA will fall into the 10-inch screen category, with a profile that measures one inch thick from the side, and a weight of 1.1kg, or 2.4 pounds. Asus claims the keyboard on the inch-thick Sea Shell will be 92 percent of full-size keyboard – a welcome relief for fat-fingered typers.

Not much will change inside, with the main news coming in terms of connectivity. Besides the usual slate of Wi-Fi standards and Bluetooth, the 1008HA will likely boast both 3.75G, and WiMAX connectivity as well.

Currently, the 1008HA remains a concept, with no price, release date, or full specs from Asus.

Editors' Recommendations

This Asus gaming laptop concept is inspired by skate culture — and it’s rad

Managing Editor

As Digital Trends’ Managing Editor, Nick Mokey oversees an editorial team delivering definitive reviews, enlightening…

Computing

How to connect a keyboard and mouse to the Steam Deck

Steam Deck with Keyboard.

One of the best features of the Steam Deck is its varied controls, from face buttons, to joysticks, to touch controls. But there's never a substitute for a full size keyboard and mouse, and fortunately, you can connect them straight to the Steam Deck. It supports wired and wireless connections, although you'll need a USB hub if you want to use a USB connection.

Computing

This ultra-portable Lenovo 2-in-1 laptop is discounted from $649 to $199

lenovo 500w 2 in 1 laptop deal april 2024 classroom

For super cheap laptop deals, take a look at Lenovo right now. You can pay just $199 and get a Lenovo 500w 2-in-1 laptop. According to Lenovo’s estimated value system, the laptop normally costs $649 which is potentially a little overly optimistic but what we do know is that $199 for a 2-in-1 laptop is incredibly cheap. If you simply want an inexpensive laptop for basic typing of documents or web browsing, you’ll be happy with the Lenovo 500w 2-in-1 laptop. Here’s all we know about it.

Why you should buy the Lenovo 500w 2-in-1 Laptop
The Lenovo 500w 2-in-1 laptop keeps things simple with its hardware but you know you’re in safe hands as Lenovo is one of the best laptop brands. Here, you get an Intel Pentium Silver N6000 processor along with 8GB of memory and 128GB of SSD M.2 storage. At this price, we’re delighted to see 8GB of memory rather than 4GB and also the use of an SSD instead of eMMC. Such additions means the Lenovo 500w 2-in-1 laptop will be a little speedier than other laptops in this price range.

Computing

This laptop beats the MacBook Air in every way but one

Lenovo Yoga 9i Gen 9 top down view showing tent mode.

The Lenovo Yoga 9i Gen 9 Mark Coppock / Digital Trends

There are plenty of great 13-inch and 14-inch laptops out there, but none that can defeat the M3 MacBook Air head-to-head. That notebook is the complete package when it comes to ultra-portable laptops.