Asus has announced that it will be equipping its latest Intel Atom-powered netbooks with “Instant On” technology. Which is currently used in the Asus Zenbook UX31, enabling it to resume from sleep nearly instantaneously.
The Asus Instant On technology will be appearing first on the Eee PC 1025C and 1025CE netbooks, and will help them resume from sleep in around 3 seconds. Both will be available later this month for $299 and $319 respectively,
When using the instant on technology Asus say that it should provide users with around 21 days of sleep time. Providing you will a manageable alliterative to having to shut down your netbook for longer periods or when worried about battery drain.
The 1025C model has 3 x USB 2.0 ports, while the Eee PC 1025CE has 2 x USB 2.0 and 1 x USB 3.0 port, and both will be equipped with a 10.1″, 1024 x 600 resolution displays, 1GB RAM, 32GB hard drive, together with VGA webcams, microphone, headphone, VGA, HDMI ports, and SDHC card slots.
As well as the new Instant On technology Asus has also revealed that other new apps will also be making their way to the latest Asus netbooks, in the form of Smart Camera and Media Sharing.
Source: Liliputing
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