The Indian subsidiary of Asustek today announced the availability of its luxury netbook, S101. It’s a 10.2-inch netbook with all the customary netbook features but with a classy looking exterior.

S101 will be selling for Rs. 27,990 (excluding taxes) with a storage selection of either a 16GB SSD or a 160GB HDD.

Full Specifications:

Model: Eee PC S101
Operating System: Genuine Windows XP Home
Display: 10.2” wide active matrix LED-backlit TFT, WSVGA 1024 x 600, 252K colors
CPU: Intel Atom
Chipset: Intel 945GSE; ICH7-M
LAN: Onboard 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet controller
Wireless Data: Network WLAN 802.11n; Bluetooth V2.0
Memory: 1 GB (DDR2)
Storage: Solid State Drive 16 GB / 160 GB Hard disk drive; 20 GB Eee Storage
1 x VGA port (D-sub 15-pin for external monitor)
3 x USB 2.0 ports
1 x LAN RJ-45
2 x audio jacks: Headphone / Mic-in
Camera: 0.3 M Pixel
Reader: 4-in-1 MMC, SD, Memory Stick and MS-PRO flash card slot
Touchpad: Multi-touch
Audio: Hi-definition audio CODEC
Built-in high quality stereo speakers
Digital Array Mic
Battery: 2-cell Li-Polymer (4 hours)
Dimensions: 264 mm (w) x 180.5 mm (d) x 18 ~ 25 mm (h)
Weight: 1 kg
Casing Colors: Brown, Champagne or Graphite

The cheap netbooks are available aplenty and that is why Asus is now checking in the luxury netbook segment. The first luxurious netbook from was a 10.2-incher S101. And now the leaked press pictures show the existence of S121, which is the same S101 but with a large 12.1-inch screen. We would love to share more details with you but unfortunately, no specifications were leaked with this pictorial treat. CES is the only savior for us now.

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S101 has already shown its presence a couple of times before but now it’s rightfully official as Asus acknowledged it with a press release. Asus has managed this fashionista netbook to be really anorexic at 18mm and lightweight at around 1kg. It comes with an encrypted Eee Cloud Storage of 20GB and SSD up to 64GB as the local option. Finally with the Super Hybrid Engine (SHE), this netbook can give five hours of continuous use. That’s what Asus claims. Full specifications below.

Press Release

Despite the promise from Asus, we will their fashionable S101 bearing the Eee PC tag. The specifications of the netbook is same as before with a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 10.2-inch LED backlit display, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, VGA-Out, card reader, USB ports, webcam and multi touch trackpad. The prices vary with the choice of HDD or SSD storage and OS choice of Windows XP and Linux.

Pricing:

16GB SSD, Windows XP, inclusive of an additional 16 GB SD card: $699
32GB SSD, Linux operating system: $699
64GB SSD, Linux operating system: $799

[Via Slashgear]

Asus’s onslaught of Eee range continues. This time they unveiled a high end S101 Eee netbook in Taiwan. But reportedly the Eee tag will be stripped from it when it goes to retail this September. The 10.2-inch snobby netbook is equipped with an Atom processor, LED backlit screen and comes in interestingly thin profile of around 16-21mm. This portable will sport only SSDs and thus we have a high price. The basic model will come with 32GB SSD making it to cost $700 and an upgrade to 64GB SSD will want you to shell out 200 bucks more.

How much Eee is too much Eee? I guess, only Asus can tell but yea they firmly believe in the adage, ‘Strike the hammer while the iron is hot’.

[Via Wired]