Price Released for ASUS 12-inch Bamboo Laptop
Filed under: Computers, Laptops | By: Alan Ng
Posted on: November 28, 2008 | 1 Comment
ASUS is preparing to release their first bamboo laptop to the public and they have released pricing details for when it goes on sale at Taiwan’s IT Month exhibition on Saturday.
This stylish looking laptop will be shipped with a 12-inch display and will be priced at NT$59,000 which is just over $1,800. Quite pricey for some perhaps, but what you will get out of that is a range of Core 2 Duo processors, 256MB of NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS graphics and a whopping 320gb of storage.
This laptop is probably only going to tempt the big spenders out there and those who have a eye for the latest gadgets. We will report on more info about this laptop after it has been released this weekend.
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