ASUS Eee PC 1008p Revealed [ASUS Adding New Netbook, Wild Design, Pine Trail Ready]

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If you’re stick of your favorite tech blog(s) covering 12 netbooks that are all the same – save for the logo on the cover, the companies know it. The netbook market is saturated and now manufacturers are starting to try to distance themselves from the competition in unique ways. Enter the ASUS Eee PC 1008p netbook, which combines some wild designs with some solid netbook specs.

The 1008p will be available in either hot pink or coffee brown (big at Starbucks) and have sort of a leathery look to them on the top of the netbook. As for the specs inside, it has a 10-inch screen, Intel Atom N450 processor, 1GB of DDR2 memory, a 250GB hard drive, Windows 7 Home Premium (note, most netbooks of this class come with Windows 7 Starter Edition) and a webcam.

No word on pricing or availability yet (the price will likely carry a premium), but this is just the newest variant in ASUS’ long line of Eee PCs to carry the ’1008′ model number. The last one was the super-slim 1008HA. For those who care about such things, the look of the new 1008P was designed by famed industrial designer Karim Rashid – and I’m told, whose favorite color is pink.