Asus gives two-fingers to the Eee PC 900

As the launch date looms, more details are slipping out about the Asus Eee PC 900 – the 9in screen successor to the Eee PC. Documents filed with the US Federal Communications Commission reveal that this large, low-cost laptop will use similar touch-pad technology to the Multi-touch technology used by Apple on the iPhone and newer MacBooks.

The submitted manuals confirm that the Eee PC 900 will have an 8.9in, 1024 x 600 screen, 1Gb RAM, up to 12Gb of storage and both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It runs the same customised version of Linux as its predecessor (a model running Windows XP will also be available) and has largely the same design, as the FCC photos show.

There’s no touch-screen, so it seems those early reports were confusing this with the Eee PC 900’s larger touch-pad that supports two-fingered gestures for zooming and scrolling documents. The documents make no mention of the processor inside the Eee PC 900, but Asus CEO Jerry Shen has stated that it will use the new Intel Atom chip.

The Eee PC 900 is due to go on sale towards the middle of this year and is expected to cost around €399.

[ FCC via Gizmodo]