Raen
10-16-2008, 11:33 AM
It seems that Asus have bought the Asus Eee to the desktop, for those of you who like your SCC to be more stationary.
Asus' Eee marque may be associated with laptops, but it's been applied to desktops too, specifically the Eee Box, a slimline unit designed to stay in one place.
The key to this Eee is still low-cost laptop technology: Intel's 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, the same chip used in Asus' top-of-the-line Eee portables. It's backed with 1GB of DDR 2 memory and an 80GB 1.5Gb/s SATA hard drive.
Asus Eee Box
Unlike most desktops, this one has 802.11n Wi-Fi on board, along with the regular Small, Cheap Computer array of connectors: Ethernet - Gigabit not 10/100Mb/s - analogue audio, an SDHC memory card slot and a set of USB ports, four in this case.
It seems to be a pretty nifty little machine. On board wireless-n is a nice touch. It also makes it very easy to update the HDD (apparently there's just a slide out tray), although the article also says that more complex upgrades are pretty difficult. Given it's a SCC that's not a surprise to me. Don't know if I'm a huge fan of being able to put it on a fancy upright stand, although being able to bolt it to the back of your TV, as is suggested by Register Hardware, seems pretty cool.
Source - Register Hardware (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/10/10/review_desktop_pc_asus_eee_box/).
Asus' Eee marque may be associated with laptops, but it's been applied to desktops too, specifically the Eee Box, a slimline unit designed to stay in one place.
The key to this Eee is still low-cost laptop technology: Intel's 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, the same chip used in Asus' top-of-the-line Eee portables. It's backed with 1GB of DDR 2 memory and an 80GB 1.5Gb/s SATA hard drive.
Asus Eee Box
Unlike most desktops, this one has 802.11n Wi-Fi on board, along with the regular Small, Cheap Computer array of connectors: Ethernet - Gigabit not 10/100Mb/s - analogue audio, an SDHC memory card slot and a set of USB ports, four in this case.
It seems to be a pretty nifty little machine. On board wireless-n is a nice touch. It also makes it very easy to update the HDD (apparently there's just a slide out tray), although the article also says that more complex upgrades are pretty difficult. Given it's a SCC that's not a surprise to me. Don't know if I'm a huge fan of being able to put it on a fancy upright stand, although being able to bolt it to the back of your TV, as is suggested by Register Hardware, seems pretty cool.
Source - Register Hardware (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/10/10/review_desktop_pc_asus_eee_box/).