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Laptop maker Asus at CES showed its upscale netbook, introducing the Asus S121. The Asus S121 will feature two technologies new to the notebook manufacturer: a solid state drive and Windows 7.

Asus is billing the S121 as an "Ultra Slim Netbook." The specs of the S121 confirm their claim, coming in at less than an inch thick, weighing about 3 pounds and measuring 11.7 x 8.3 inches. The SSD will feature 512 GB and was built using technology developed by Asus itself. The Asus S121 will feature a 1.33GHz Intel Atom microprocessor.

Another interesting note to come out of Asus' CES introduction was the expected battery life of the S121. The netbook is powered by twin batteries that should provide up to 10 hours of life for the machine.

The Asus S121 was debuted at CES with Windows 7, which likely won't be available for quite some time. The S121 will be on the shelves long before  Customers are likely hoping that some version of XP will show up on the netbook instead of Vista.