The Asus Eee PC T91 is the inception convertible touchscreen netbook from Asus. In other words, you can clip the strainer down greater than the keyboard and permit the netbook as a stone. At despatch, it ships with Windows XP Home Edition, not Windows 7 or Windows XP Tablet Edition, which are optimized in behalf of permit with touchscreen displays. Instead, Asus has created a set of touch-friendly applications and optimizations to certify the netbook easier to manoeuvre with a direct or the included stylus.
Unfortunately, the netbook’s sluggish in the conduit processor makes the Eee PC T91 too disinclined to bring off some tasks like playing HD video or moderate viewing some snare pages in in the conduit Internet Explorer, which Asus has optimized in behalf of touchscreen steering.
Asus is initially targeting the T91 at instructional and locale markets, although it request be within reach in behalf of gain at effortlessly the comprehensive noted starting today as skilfully. Still, this netbook is agreed of the merely stone PCs you’re expected to note in behalf of impaired $499, so if you’re looking in behalf of a touchscreen on a budget, it power be merit checking effectively.

Later this year the performers request despatch a 10 inch miniature in behalf of mainstream customers, called the Eee PC T101H.
The component features in this go over again has an 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel exhibition, a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520 CPU, 16GB SSD, and 1GB of RAM.
Design
There are two things that harden the Eee PC T91 at effortlessly oneself from other Asus netbooks (and most netbooks in general). In centre info, the netbook is a slight smaller than the company’s inception netbook, the Eee PC 701, moderate notwithstanding that that miniature had a 7 inch exhibition while the Eee PC T91 has an 8.9 inch strainer. First, it’s microscopic, measuring unhesitatingly 8.93 x 6.53 x 1.13 and weighing unhesitatingly greater than 2 pounds.

But the computer’s most distinguishing assets is it touchscreen exhibition. You can at hand on the strainer with your direct or the included stylus while using the netbook in clamshell form. Or you can pirouette the strainer and clip it down greater than the keyboard to permit the T91 in stone form. But we’ll confuse to that a misgiving more in the later sections. While the computer runs Windows XP Home Edition (as opposed to Tablet Edition), Asus has included a legions of software utilities to certify touchscreen steering easier.
The strainer is connected to the fastened of the computer with at effortlessly a pirouette. Overall the strainer feels catchy firm, but it does wobble a microscopic misgiving when you smite at it.

The pirouette also allows you to permit the netbook in a heterogeneity of configurations, not unhesitatingly clamshell and stone modes.
Around the sides of the T91 you’ll note 2 USB ports, in the conduit an Ethernet jack, mic and headphone jacks, a hire out in behalf of holding the included stylus, a VGA harbour, and 2SDHC achievable slots. For exemplification, you can clip the strainer gormless and permit the prop of the computer to prop it up in behalf of permit as a digital media contestant or advise fully composition. Asus ships the netbook with a 16GB SDHC achievable, which essentially doubles the amount of within reach storage thanks to the computer’s slight 16GB firm dignified disk.
At the surmount of the exhibition you’ll note stereo microphones and 0.3MP webcam. Below the exhibition is the power button and a dual-purpose button that lets you whirling the strainer or despatch the Asus Touch Gate software set.

On the depths of the computer you’ll note a RAM access panel which can be opened at effortlessly removing 2 screws. (More on Touch Gate in the software subdivision of this review). The computer’s speakers are also on the depths of the component.
The array of a firm dignified disk and a stumpy power Intel Atom Z520 processor allows the T91 to depreciate reasonably saucy most of the schedule. So Asus made the decision to certify the netbook fanless.

The computer’s fake frequency has a simulated make a note an end to, which is pulling, but which also makes it a fingerprint magnet. This means the computer is catchy much mum when it’s constant, although the depths does confuse a slight irritable when performing CPU-intensive tasks like watching video.
Touchscreen and Display
The Eee PC T91 features an 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel resistive touchscreen exhibition.

The strainer features a simulated make a note an end to, which means that it turns into a advise fully when Euphemistic pre-owned in sardonic sunlight. But indoors the strainer looks in the signification of as resources as any netbook exhibition and shows colors catchy skilfully. If the touchscreen doesn’t certify the mould to be aligned fittingly, there’s a 9-point calibration utility that works catchy skilfully.
The strainer is extent sympathetic whether you’re using a a stylus or direct. The netbook doesn’t detail face an accelerometer, so the exhibition doesn’t automatically whirling as you change pause the computer hither.

But you can permit the strainer in stone or countryside form at effortlessly holding the whirling button impaired the strainer. Just keep dark baulk in thoughts that some applications and snare sites that look word-for-word hawkshaw on a 1024 x 600 pixel exhibition are contrary to permit on a 600 x 1024 pixel strainer.
Keyboard and touchpad
The touchpad is purposes major in behalf of a netbook this slight, and has a OK configuration to it.
The miniature I tested does not encouragement multi-touch capabilities, although it’s achievable that Asus request let a multi-touch capable kind when Windows 7 is released this bring down.

The button impaired the touchpad is sympathetic and junior to permit. While I yourselves offer having organize buttons to on fair and sinistral clicks, there’s no doubt that the free button with a rocker dial looks much nicer than two well-defined buttons.
The keyboard leaves a misgiving more to be desired. That means you’re stuck with a slight kaftan intonation on the fair side that’s to the fair of the up/PgUp intonation.

Not merely is it in the signification of the even so expanse as the Eee PC 701 keyboard, but it has the even so layout. If you’re a touch-typist, there’s a resources predictability that you’ll note yourself accidentally hitting the up arrow when you flawed to horsewhip kaftan. Instead of capitalizing a word-for-word, you’ll note yourself typing on the maltreat job proper.

Asus addressed the right-shift intonation positioning on its 10 inch netbooks with a modern keyboard layout, but the performers plainly hasn’t rolled effectively a modern keyboard in behalf of its smaller laptops eventually.
While typing on the Eee PC T91 keyboard is certainly more satisfied than pecking away at a thumb-keyboard on a BlackBerry or other smartphone, it’s not as junior as typing on a larger netbook. I’ve been told in the conduit that the upcoming Eee PC T101H touchscreen stone with a 10 inch strainer request have in the offing a newer keyboard with a wagerer positioning in behalf of the kaftan intonation. If you have in the offing mammoth hands or an hatred to slight keyboards, this power not be the netbook in behalf of you - unless you design to initially permit the Eee PC T91 in stone form.
Software
The miniature featured in this go over again ships with Windows XP, which isn’t notably optimized in behalf of touchscreen permit. While you can certainly permit a stylus a misgiving like a mouse and at hand on the strainer, that’s in the signification of all the functionality you would confuse if Asus hadn’t included a set of programs to certify the Eee PC T91 more get to amicable.