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And you thought the days of the netbook were done in the wake of the tablet takeover. Think again. It's using IFA to launch the EeeBook X205, a netbook in all but name, that will cost $200.
It's to tablets what the vinyl revival is to digital downloads. An 11.6-inch laptop, it's running off an Intel Atom Z3735 Bay Trail processor. Though its 1366 x 768 screen is a resolution lowly enough to hark back to that brief time when netbooks were all the rage, its other internals are a bit more up to date — you've an option of 32GB or 64GB of solid state storage, and a battery life that's a solid 12 hours long. A measly 2GB of RAM however means multitasking on the machine may be a bit of a chore — I could imagine Windows 8.1 with Bing (pre-installed here) will be chugging a bit on this.
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This netbook looks like a pretty good deal for people who just need a computer to do everyday tasks like Office work, home work, web browsing, listening to music, watching video, and playing older and casual game titles.
