Asus EEE PC T91 Features Full Touchscreen and Weights For Only Two Pounds

The Asus EEE PC T91 is the first tablet netbook by ASUS with full touchscreen feature and is already available in the US market now. Broadly, touchscreen tablets are an off-repeated combination of excitement and disappointment in many ways. Mostly what's out there are great ideas with mediocre hardware, mix it with sleek and modern shape, but very bad execution of the touchscreen feature. Let’s see if the T91 would be able to sidestep these issues.

The T91 is a compact little machine and has a pretty attractive physical appearance. It weights only two pounds including the lithium polymer battery with a thickness of only an inch. The LCD can swivel to the left and move quite smoothly, giving a sturdy feeling about the netbook. The 8.9-inch EEC PC T91 provides a small and standard keyboard that allows surprisingly easy and efficient typing. The machine is certainly compact but not cramped and features a nice clickness. The backlit LED resistive touch panel of this machine is considerably bright and good looking, though, at the same time, its very glossy and takes fingerprint easily. It boasts two USB, one VGA, and two audio ports, and a power button on the screen’s left bottom edge. There is another button directly to the right of the power button, which is one of the means of activating the touch interface. Moreover, it has a flexible stylus fitted under the bottom right side of the main body.

When it comes about the specs of T91, it has an Intel Atom Z520 1.33 GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, 16GB SSD, Intel GMA500 graphics and a lithium polymer battery that offers 5 hours of constant backup. Other than that, it also features 802.11 B/G/N Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 plus EDR and 10/100Mbps Ethernet.

To get the touchscreen appropriately responsive, the Asus EEE PC T91 comprises an easy, 9-point calibration procedure and also loaded with some custom-built software called Touch Gate interface. The touchscreen interface can be activated from the usual XP desktop in three different ways- via the desktop icon, the slider icon on the top of the desktop and a physical button located right to the power toggle. Hitting any of those will bring up the main Asus Touch Gate interface which is basically a very simple row or different icons that can be reorganized in any order. Memos and Notepad is pretty self explanatory without plenty of whistles and bells, but the applications work very much efficiently. The touchscreen is quite responsive and calibrated to both fingertip and stylus, so the notes can be made with actual handwriting after getting a little used to with the process.

Clicking your finger left to the Touch Gate interface, it will appear a screen called 'Widget Screen" which comes with many pre-installed and customizeable widgets from Yahoo. Overall, the software with the EEE PC T91 is designed really nicely and operates pretty good as advertised. Still, there are few limitations with the CPU and the responsive touchscreen, we had to move slower than we usually want to.