
ASUS P5B Premium is said to be the next addition to ASUS P5B series and the Premium model introduces some news. The French site Clubic has come across both pictures and technical information (via XtremeSystems) about the board that will use new high-quality capacitors and a TPM connector on the motherboard for Microsoft's BitLocker Drive encryption. This technology will be used by Windows Vista to encrypt data on the harddrives and ASUS is taking aim for the Vista users with its new P5B Premium motherboard. It has namely also integrated 512MB flash memory to support Vista's ReadyBoost.

Exactly how much one have to pay for these extra features remains to be seen, but at the same time it's interesting to see that the hardware manufacturers is starting to prepare for Microsoft's new operating system.

Comment 
Send to a friend
Related news:
2009-07-01 ASUS trying to dump 7" and 8.9" netbooks
2009-06-30 New High Speed Wireless Router from ASUS Delivers Convenient Bandwidth Management and Enhanced Connectivity
2009-06-22 ASUS confirms MARS GTX295 pricing
2009-06-19 ASUS does SATA 6Gbps justice with Marvell controller
2009-06-15 ASUS Maximus III Formula - pictures o'plenty