Asus Eee PC T101MT to ship in April for $ 499

The Asus Eee PC T101MT is a netbook with a touchscreen 10 inches that can be back on the keyboard for use in tablet mode. The screen is 10.1 inches, 1024 x 600 pixels capacitive resistive touch screen with support for multitouch gestures. And the netbook running Windows 7 Home Premium, which includes optimizations for the contact entry (and the Asus TouchGate software suite, which offers a touch some applications tailored to your debut).

After showing the latest 10-inch tablet convertible at CES in January, Asus is finally ready to ship the T101MT in April.

Eee PC.it note that it will be available in Italy next month for 499 euros. And I was told it will be available in the U.S. in early April for about $ 499 U.S. - which makes the Eee PC T101MT in a position good enough to compete with Apple IPAD, which also has a tag 499 $ price, but no physical keyboard or the ability to run desktop applications.

The Italian version of T101MT Eee PC has a 1.66 GHz processor Intel Atom N450, GMA 3150 graphics, 2GB of RAM, HDD 320GB, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth and a 0.3MP webcam.Asus said that the battery should be good for about 6 hours, and netball has VGA, microphone and headphone jacks as well as 3 USB ports and an SDHC card reader.

But it seems that there will be a version 7 with Windows Starter Edition, 1 GB of RAM and a hard disk of 160 GB My guess is that this is the model you get for $ 499 U.S.

(Via liliputing)