ASUS 16.5mm 23” stylish LCD MS236H now also available in Japan

The MS236H (Designo MS), which happens to be widely available in Europe, is now heading to Japan for a nationwide launch tomorrow with a street price of 28800 Yen.

Our Monitor is a 23” LCD with a full HD resolution (1920x1080), has 250 cd/m2 brightness, a 2ms (GTG) response time, 50000:1 active contrast ratio and offers both HDMI and DVI-HDCP.

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Asus Upgrades Their Eee PC with Windows 7

Asus just upgraded their EeePC 1005 series netbooks with Windows 7 Starter. The 1005HR-WS, a 10.1-inch netbook now comes with an Intel Atom N280 (1.66GHz) CPU, 1GB of memory, an Intel 945GSE Express chipset, 250GB of HDD, as well as Wifi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, webcamera, 3 USB ports. Asus announced a price of 49,800 Yen.

The 1005HE-WS250 provides a WSVGA resolution (1024x600) instead of 1366x768, and the 1005HE-WS160 will get 160GB of HDD instead of 250GB…

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UL20A & UL80AG: Asus Launches New CULV Notebooks with Windows 7

Asus announced the availability in Japan of their new UL20A, and UL80AG notebooks.
The first is a CULV 12.1 inch notebook featuring an Intel Celeron SU2300 CPU (1.2GHz), an Intel GS45 Express Chipset, 2GB of RAM (up to 4GB), 320GB of HDD, as well as Wifi b/g/n, Ethernet, Bluetooth 2.1, and a web camera. Expect something like 59,800 yen, or €440.

The UL80AG-WX010VS (high-end model) is a 14-inch notebook with a resolution of 1,366x768, an Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 (1.4GHz) CPU, an Intel GS45 Express, 2GB of RAM, 320GB of HDD, a DVD superMulti Drive, a battery life span of 11.4h. For the other specs, our notebook features the wifi b/g/n, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 2.1, Webcamera, Multi-Card reader… 129,800 Yen, or €958.

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