Eee PC is Forbes Asia product of the year

NEW DELHI, INDIA: ASUS, a provider in digital products, today announced that its Eee PC has been named Forbes Asia’s Product of the Year for 2008, right after being crowned Stuff Magazine’s Gadget of the Year and Computer of the Year.

Forbes hailed the Eee PC for “its innovation and disruption”, and added that the “ultraportable” netbook had “changed the global PC industry”, said a press release.

This new addition to the Eee PC’s mantle joins numerous other awards chalked up in the media, design and industry circles over the past year, most notably NBC.com’s Best Travel Gadget and the prestigious G-Mark Award, it added.

Since its official launch in October 2007, the Eee PC  has garnered numerous international awards from the media, design and industry circles.

It has received the Forbes Asia Product of the Year and Stuff Gadget of the Year/Computer of the Year honors, apart from Computer Shopper's Best Netbook of 2008, PC Pro's Hardware of the Year etc.

It boasts of an exclusively-designed battery that provides up to eight hours of unplugged use, perfect for frequent travelers and adventurers who spend lots of time outdoors, the release said.