Comdex 2001 - Day 1: Slow but interesting

ASUS: More than just motherboards

We'll include ASUS motherboards in our second day of coverage but what's important to note here is that one of the largest and most well respected motherboard manufacturers in Taiwan is also known for their notebooks.

The first thing that caught our eye was a mobile Pentium 4 notebook, the first we had seen on display outside of Intel. The notebook was more of a full sized solution that weighed in at over 6 lbs.

Cooling the mobile Pentium 4 is accomplished through this duct

The new ASUS T9 notebook is also very interesting mainly because of its removable MP3 player. The notebooks looks like a regular unit until you take note of the removable MP3 drive bay at the front of the system.

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Below you can see the MP3 player itself: