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Asus Confirms Second-Gen Eee Touch Screens

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Asus Confirms Second-Gen Eee Touch Screens

While the next generation of Asus’ Eee with an 8.9-inch LCD screen has been confirmed by Asus since earlier this month, the rumored touch-screen variant just recently became reality. Asus confirmed the touch feature to the Taiwanese media outlet DigiTimes on Wednesday, along with offering a projected price for the machine.

Kevin Lin, vice president of Asus’ sale department, told DigiTimes that touch-enabled  Eees would begin to ship in May or June. Besides touch screens, the prospect of GPS was also mentioned, although not explicitly confirmed.

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Lin said the new Eee models should sell for about NT$15,000 upon launch, which works out to about $500 USD. In total, Asus hopes to push out five million of the notebooks in 2008 alone.

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