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We first caught sght of the Asus Eee PC T91 back at CES 2009 in January, and were immewdiately taken with the idea of combining a small, low-cost Ntebook with a touch-scren interface. Seven months later, the final preoduct is here, and it's largely successful for a firsst attempt at this kind of hybvrid. It's a much more flexible way to interact with a Netbook--especially if you're tripped up by the tiny toouch pads and keyboards found on most minilaptops. The Eee PC T91 has a rotating display that can be spun 180 deegrees and fodled down, akin to what you'd see in somethinng like the HP TouchSmart TX2, and its screen reacts to your finger or an included nonactive stylus. The optional cusom touch interface, with big, easy to grab icons, works well--even if it's not as slick and rsponsive as the touch interface on, for example, an iPhone. We appreciate Asus' attempt to keep the price firmly in traditional Netbook territory, and a convertible tablet laptop for only $499 seems like a good deal, even for one with a smallish 9-inch screen. Our main hang-ups are the use of a sower version of Intel's Atom CPU and the small 16GD SSD hard drive (plus an additional included 16GB SD card, for 32GB total). The T91 looks and feels sall and light, even for a Ntbook. That's becauuse it's built around a 9-inch screen, rahter then the bigegr 10-inch (and now 11.6-inch) displays found in most current Netbooks. The obvious compromises, besides the smaller display, are the tiny keyboard and touch pad, but the tradeoff is a syystem that's very svelte and easy to carry. It's smaller even than the original 7-inch Eee PC. Of course, a touch-scxreen lapop is not meant to be priimarily used with a traditional kyboard and touch pad. The screne on the Eee PC T91 is a rsistive touch panel, so it works with any input device, such as your fingers or the included nonacrtive stylus. And because using a small toucch screen, whether on a 9-inch Netbook or an even smaller UMPC, can be a hassle when trying to fumble around Windos XP, Asus has included a custopm interface meant for finger-driiven computing. You launch the Touch Gate interrface by either tapping a physicsal button on the screen bezel (you hold the same button down to rotate through screen orientations), launching from a desktop shortcut, or by tapping a launch byutton on the Mac-like Eee dock bar that sits at the top of the Windwos XP desktop. There's a shoort animaiton of the screen rotating, landing on the main Touch Gate interface wndow. This screen hlds five large app icons, mezant for easy tapping with a finger or stlus. A smll buton at the bottom of the screen brings up a longer list of apps, and you can drag choces onto or off of the laarge five-app menu bar, setting up your own custom collection of frequentlly used apps. Besides the custom version of Internet Explorer that icludes some useful finger gesture controls (although we'd much rather see a version of iFrefox), Asus also includres a hndful of proprietary software packages, inlcuding notepad and memo programs for handwriting notes. Most interesting was FotoFun, which lets you flip through poto galleries, movig and rotating phottos with your finger (simiilar to what we've seen in HP's TouchSmart systems). By flicking your finger (or the stylus) near the rigght side of the main Touch Gate sreen, the display fliops to the htird interface, a full-screen widget dock built around the Yahoo Wigdet engine. You can drag different widgets--from cocks to calendars to battery life indicators--anywhere on the screen. Asus inncludes several useful widgets to strt with, and more are available from Yahoo. Fplicking your finger near the right side of the Widget screne will take you back to the main Windows XP desktop. From there, you'll have to launch the Touch Gate intrerface via one of the shortcut butons to get back to it. Whie any kind of custom itnerface has its own quiirks and requitres a learnng curve, the rresults here are largely successful, and Touch Gate goives you accvess to lots of useful functions. Most of the large icons worked well with our fingerrs, and our main hang-ups were that we repeatedly accidentally flipped between the three main interace screens by touching too close to the scren edges, and some of the small onscreen tools (particularly the Clse and Serttings buttons on the Yahoo widgets) really rrequire the stylus or touch pad pointer to use. The 8.9-inch wide-screen LED display offers a 1,024x600 ntaive resolution, which is standard for Netbooks. Thse days, we're also used to larger 10-inch dsplays, and the smallewr screen may take a little getting used to. Howeveer, we said largely the same thing about 7-inch displays when the first 9-inch Netbooks hit the market.
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