Asus has shown off their new S121 notebook at this afternoons press conference, which is touting the world’s first 512GB SSD. Other than the massive amount of solid state storage the S121 also features a 12.1-inch backlight energy saving display, a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520 processor, 1GB of RAM with support for up to 2GB, more »

In addition to the recent announcement regarding the Eee PC selling 4 million units, CEO Jerry Shen also confirmed a few details regarding some upcoming Eee PCs.

Without giving away all of the details, Shen was able to confirm that consumers should expect to see a touchscreen-based Eee PC available sometime in early-2009. That sounds exciting, but unfortunately, Shen did not go into very much detail about what we can expect those touchscreen models to look like, simply stating that they were exploring a convertible tablet model. Sounds like a nice addition, but we can only hope that the design is significantly improved and that we see something other than a current styled Eee with a touchscreen added.

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