ASUS, the company behind the ASUS netbook, is a technology-oriented company with one of the world's top R&D teams and is well known for high-quality and innovative technology. Perhaps best known for their motherboard products, in 2007, one in three desktop PCs sold was powered by an ASUS motherboard. The company's 2007 revenues were $6.9 billion.
ASUS has been credited with starting the netbook revolution when they introduced their tiny Eee PC ASUS netbook with a 7" screen. Sold mostly as a novelty, the Eee PC soon evolved into it's 8.9" and later 10.1" ASUS Netbook and still represents the best of breed the 10.1" netbook category.
Today ASUS offers a wide range of netbooks at 10.1" (they have just released an 11.6"). The ASUS Eee PC family of netbooks have a number of innovative features that allow this ASUS netbook to claim battery life in excess of 10 hours.
Their flagship netbook today is the Eee PC 1005HA powered by an Intel Atom N280 Processor running at 1.66GHz with 1GB DDR2 RAM (expandable to 2GB), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, a 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400 RPM), Windows XP Home Operating System, and a 10.1-inch WSVGA 1024x600 LCD Display. The Eee PC 1005HA has a 92% of full size keyboard and includes a 1.3MP webcam and microphone, Bluetooth, and a 2-in-1 MMC, SD(SDHC) flash card slot.
The real differentiators for the ASUS Netbook (Eee PC)is the incorporation of Wi-Fi 802.11n (draft 2.4GHz n) and their Super Hybrid Engine with can provide up to 10.5 hours of unplugged all-day computing.