8.9” ASUS Eee PC T91MT Multi-touch Tablet $455 + Free Shipping
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Friday, February 19, 2010
My review for the 8.9” ASUS Eee PC tablet netbook is now up. I had a really difficult time summing up this review and couldn’t really get anything solid for the summary. Me not having any real use or need for a touch screen is one big reason. As much as I initially enjoyed working with a touch screen (especially web browsing) I am very glad to be back on standard laptop / netbooks where I have a real keyboard for touch typing.
Someone asked how Google Maps is like with multi-touch. Tested it out. Speed is okay, if a little slow. Zero multi-touch capability though.
Read my ASUS Eee PC T91MT review.
I own this T91MT (from NewEgg), great netbook for basic web surfing and watching some videos. Great battery life even without power saving settings. I wouldn’t call it multitouch though as it only recognizes maximum of 2 finger points at once, I call that DUALTOUCH! I was expecting more than a dualtouch touchscreen :(
It won’t even play youtube or HULU videos (unless you download them first) that I so hoped for either (even tried on LAN connection incase WIFI was to blame, but nope). Forget trying to use Google Earth! I could only upgrade the ram as high as 2GB and you cannot give more RAM to the internal video card.
In the promo videos from Asus showing this unit and touch screen applications running nice and smooth is a farce. When you flick images, they are not smoooth, scrolling pages or button sets, they will not follow the speed of your fingers, sometimes you are not sure if your click was even registered as the PC is busy catching up. Their videos are a bit decieving (actually very decieiving considering I believed their fake videos).
It plays most downloaded movie files I have (as long as you find most recent video card drivers from Intel, Asus doesn’t even give you these), great for all my 720p DivX vids (1080 may not play).
Great for FLAC and MP3 playback.
Tried Windows XP and Vista on it, Windows 7 runs best.
I have tried some emulators of old 8bit & 16bit games (I am a fan of old games). NES & SNES works perfect. Sega Genesis and Master System roms play fine. GBA most games ran well. Majority of MAME games would play (use GlovePie and your WiiMote). A few n64 games ran ok. DosBox with games like DOOM, Blood, etc work well too. I wouldn’t expect to get more gaming from this unit, lucky if PC games made before 2000 will play smoothly.
You can install Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition on Windows 7 and I even found a download to install Microsoft’s Surface applications (Google “Touch Pack Drop 4”).
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