We talked a bit about the cool Asus LED backlit MS238H LCD back in February when it was pegged to launch in Europe “soon.” The LCD has now turned up in Australia along with its MS228 brother. Both of the monitors have lots of green features and are LED backlit.

The MS238H is a 23-inch screen with a price in Australia of $599. The MS228H is a 21.5-inch screen with a price of $499 down under. Both screens share the same basic features like a 1920 x 1080 resolution. They can display 16.7million colors and have 10M:1 dynamic contrast ratios.

If you’re looking for a decent budget netbook, the ASUS 1001PX is worth a look. It features a carbon fiber type lid and packs either Windows XP, with a 160GB hard drive and a 5-hour battery life; or Windows 7 with a 250GB hard drive, a larger 6-cell battery and 9-hour battery life.

Looks like the Windows XP version will cost about $325 while the Windows 7 version will run you $400. Both netbooks have the same specs otherwise.

The Asus Cine5 is a smaller version of the sound bars that are available. This model is designed not for your large TV, but for your desk. The Cine5 measures in at about 15-inches, with a typical five speaker set up and a 28W max amp. There’s also a 3.5mm audio jack for headphones.

It’s good looking as soundbars go, but sadly, we don’t have any word on pricing or availability yet, but hopefully we will be seeing this one soon.

ASUS has unveiled their latest 27-inch Full HD 3D monitor at CeBIT 2010. The PG276H is a nice looking widescreen monitor that supports NVIDIA’s 3D Vision technology so you can watch all the new 3D movies being produced.

It will deliver 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution, 400 cd/m2 brightness, 20,000:1 contrast ratio, 2ms response time and 120Hz refresh rate. As far as ports, it offers dual-link DVI, HDMI and VGA. No info on pricing and availability just yet, but we should know soon.

Well look at this sexy and apparently uber-thin router from Asus. It looks like a prop from a Sci-Fi flick. Sadly we don’t have many details on the RT-N56U, but we can tell you that it was announced at CeBIT this week.

Other than that we know that it has dual band support with the 5GHz band being used, it’s compatible with printers and scanners, and is very fast with 300,000 concurrent sessions available. Feel free to stare. That’s what we’ve been doing.

Asus has announced the Xonar Xense soundcard at the CeBIT tradeshow in Germany. It offers DVI output, SPDIF output, 6.3mm audio jacks for headphones and microphones and comes bundled with the Sennheiser PC350 headphones.

It will push out 7Vrms of power, thanks to an inbuilt headphone amplifier. Some other specs include 118dB of sound clarity and support for several standards like EAX, DirectSound, Dolby and others. There’s also its GX 2.5 audio engine, which allows users to customize the sound profile of their cans to a particular game genre.

Asus makes lots of notebooks and netbooks, and we have talked about some of the newest today. However, even before Asus introduced the netbook category with its Eee netbooks the company was huge in the computer hardware market with mainboards and other gear.

Asus has unveiled its latest mainboard based on the new AMD 890GX chipset called the M4A89GTD PRO. The new board has numerous overclocking features for AMD Phenom processors and video cards that get more performance out of your hardware at the press of a button.

I just mentioned that Asus was showing off the new N series notebooks this week. Asus is still best known for its line of Eee netbooks and the computer maker is showing off some cool new models.

The most interesting is the Eee PC Prime 1018P netbook. The little machine has a 10.1-inch screen that is LED backlit. The keyboard is almost full-size and has large isolated keys. The machine is also said to be the thinnest Eee yet.

CeBIT is going strong in Germany this week and along with the show are coming a hoard of new notebooks and other computer systems and gear. Asus has been showing off some nice stuff this week and among the new gear are the N61J, N71J, and B82J notebooks.

The machines all share common hardware like Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 processors and Altec Lansing speakers. Asus uses SonicMaster audio tech to improve sound further and offers ATI HD5730 or NVIDIA GT 325M graphics options.

ASUS has added a third model to their O!Play mediaplayer range, the ASUS O!Play HD2. Sadly we don’t have any information. Just the name, with no specs. However the photo reveals USB, eSATA and various forms of memory card reader.

Assuming that the O!Play HD2 is similar to the two models that have gone before it, we would guess 1080p HD video output via HDMI with networking support, either ethernet or 802.11n like the O!Play Air HDP-R3. Hopefully we will have full specs soon.

I already mentioned that Garmin-Asus has offered the official introduction for the Android-powered A50 smartphone. The company has also offered the official launch window for the Windows Mobile sibling to the A50 called the M10.

The nuvifone M10 runs Windows Mobile 6.5.3 and will hit Europe and Asia in the first half of 2010. The price for the device is unknown as is availability in other countries. The handset uses a 3.5-inch WVGA touch screen.

Smartphones with GPS navigation are nothing new; in fact, the feature is a staple of pretty much every smartphone on the market today. However, for many of the most popular devices, like the iPhone, GPS navigation requires you to buy software. Garmin-Asus has announced the official launch window for the nuvifone A50 with navigation at its core.

The A50 is an Android-powered smartphone that features turn-by-turn direction and other features that Garmin offers on its software apps and stand-alone GPS devices. The A50 also has a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen and an onscreen QWERTY keyboard.

Want yourself a laptop that looks like it was torn out of a Stealth Fighter? The recently announced Asus G73JH 17.3-inch G Series gaming laptop is now available in the US.

There’s only one configuration available right now. Some specs include the Intel Core i7 720QM quad core processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1GB graphics, 8GB of DDR3 memory, a 500GB hard drive, a DVD burner, an 8-cell battery and Windows 7 Home Premium OS.

Asus is always dropping new devices and the latest is a 23-Inch LED-Backlit LCD Monitor, model number MS238H for the European market. It looks really sexy, which is a hard trick for a monitor these days.

This widescreen monitor sports a glossy black bezel, with 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution, a 2ms response time (G2G), 250 cd/m2 brightness, 10,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and features D-Sub and HDMI connectors.

While the economy has been bad consumers have still been buying and replacing computers. Rather than buying the expensive notebooks that they might have went for in years past, many consumers looked to cheap netbooks for computers.

Research firm StrategyAnalytics reports that netbook shipments in 2009 boomed with a total of 30.2 million units shipped globally. That number is a 79% growth compared to the previous year’s netbook shipments.