Asus has unveiled a new ultra affordable laptop, the EeeBook X205, at IFA 2014, resurrecting the once popular Eee brand that was synonymous with the netbook era.
Available in Europe later this year for €199 (about £165, $260, AU$280), it promises to solve some of the issues that ultimately led to the doom of the netbook.
It packs a 11.6-inch LED backlit display (possibly with a 1,366 x 768 pixels resolution) in a very compact form factor.
With a 17.5mm profile and weighing less than 1Kg, it still houses a full-size keyboard and a larger-than-average touchpad (36% bigger), something usually found on 14-inch models.
Other interesting specs include a fanless design, 12-hour battery life and up to 14 days standby with real-time updates in sleep mode, a quad-core Intel processor (possibly the Atom Z3735), 2GB of RAM, 32GB or 64GB onboard storage, two USB ports, a card reader and a HDMI port.
Asus will also bundle 500GB cloud storage for two years with the EeeBook X205, which will be available in white, black, red and gold.
