Asus is no stranger to small and cheap computing. Just six years ago it introduced the world to the very first netbook. That Linux-powered Asus Eee PC ran an Intel Celeron at just 700MHz, and it was touted by some as the future of computing.

It has been a long six years since, and much has changed. While Asus was thinking that smaller computing was the recipe for future success, the company didn’t take it far enough. Netbooks were displaced by the one-two punch of Ultrabooks and tablets, and today most of us spend much more time on tablets (and on our phones) than we do on anything resembling a traditional PC.

However, Asus hasn't given up on the netbook concept. Together with Intel and Microsoft, Asus thinks the Transformer Book T100 is just the thing to usher the netbook into this new era. And as it turns out, Asus almost got it right.