Struggling in the notebook market up against Toshiba and HP Asus who are also under pressure in the netbook market following the launch of the iPad, is now turning their attention to 3D with the launch of new 3D notebooks and an iPad competitor.
Yesterday, at the opening of the Computex Show in Taiwan NVidia and Asus announced three new 3D PCs among their offering is a 3D gaming laptop.
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The Company has also revealed the Eee Pad a Windows 7-based device that uses an Intel CULV Core 2 Duo processor and a touch-sensitive capacitive screen. It can be used as a multimedia player, e-reader, Web-browser, or, with the help of a keyboard docking station, full-featured PC. Asus will be releasing two versions of the Eee Pad. The EP101TC will come with a 10-inch screen and the EP121 will ship with a 12-inch screen. Asus claims both systems will deliver at least 10 hours of battery life.
Asus CEO Jerry Shen says that tablet devices like this will bridge the conventional divide between business and consumer products. “We envision a different kind of usage scenario,” Shen said. “You can be both a premier professional and a housewife.”
For the notebook market Asus has unveiled the G51Jx-EE 3D gaming laptop, in addition to the 3D-ready Eee Top ET2400 and CD5390 tower PC.
“Asus has a strong track record of pioneering new categories of PCs, as we did with the netbook,” said Jerry Shen, CEO of Asus.
“Now Asus is very bullish on developing the 3D PC category by shipping notebooks, desktops and an all-in-one PC equipped with NVidia 3D Vision. We believe that all entertainment-based PCs will become 3D capable within a few years.”
All three machines will ship with 100Hz displays and active shutter 3D glasses and discrete graphics processors from NVidia.
The gaming-branded G51Jx-EE is a meaty 3D-ready laptop with no need for an external IR emitter to work in tandem with the bundled 3D Vision active shutter glasses from NVidia.
If you are looking for a machine to run the latest 3D PC games and Blu-rays later in 2010, then this could be a serious contender.
Asus’ Eee Top ET2400 could prove to be a great all-in-one for the kitchen, study or even the bedroom, while the CD5390 tower is for the seriously hardcore gamer demographic, sporting an NVidia GeForce GTX 480 GPU and support for up to three 3D LCDs, for a truly wraparound 3D gaming experience.
