We very briefly mentioned the Asus Eee Box as an example of an ultra low-cost desktop PC that will be hitting the market soon, but we didn’t have any idea what it looked like. Asus has officially unveiled the new Ee Box and it looks like it will come in three different colors, white, black, and red.
Take a look at the images below. My first thought is that it’s very sleek and modern looking. It also reminds me of a Wii in some ways with the way it’s slim, and the way it sits. The benefit to the Eee line of computers is that they are designed to be simple. With the Eee Box, a user just has to plug in a monitor and keyboard, and they’ll be ready to use their Linux based system. They say that you can power up and be on your preferred web browser in just 5 seconds.
One the official announcement, they also talk about using your Eee Box as a wireless digital hub for streaming music, pictures, and movies from a media center. There’s still no word on when we can expect these computers to hit the market, but we imagine they’ll be a pretty big hit.
Source: Engadget
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“They say that you can power up and be on your preferred web browser in just 5 seconds.”
Wow…but somehow I just can’t phantom that…
The box itself looks nice enough, but that’s one ugly-ass base if you ask me. Plus, I don’t like it cranked up at an angle. It would be best if you could just detach it and lay it flat.
It certainly looks like a Wii Nintendo to me. I wonder how it performs as a real computer and not a game gadget. Do you know the price of this baby?
Quite frankly, this seems a little made up.
I’m kinda wondering the same thing. If that’s from standby mode then that’s understandable, but a full boot cycle would almost have to take longer than that.
I actually thought the base looked kinda slick. But I’m sure that the unit is detachable from it.
There’s been no word on pricing yet, but I would suspect it will roll in under $300 if this is supposed to be a low cost machine.
It could be, but it all seems reasonable to me.
I think it’s the real deal, some pictures leaked to the web months ago, and it was more or less the same thing except that it lacked that iron piece in the base (I guess they added it for the sake of stability).
Certainly, I wouldn’t matter to have one next to the TV in the living room, although Shuttle and its KPC it’s more tempting.
The 5 second “boot” can be done with Splashtop or ExpressGate. I thought ExpressGate was only on the higher end Asus motherboards at the moment though.
Huh, hadn’t heard about that before. That’s pretty cool how ExpressGate offers the Internet functionality, and then you can boot into the operating system if you want. Here’s a video for anyone that wants to know more about it:
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Hmm, has a lot of potential. Gee, the Splashtop Browser looked a lot like Firefox 2.
Actually, it’s Firefox: [splashtop.com]
Fathom.
If it’s using solid state memory with an OS optimised as such I can understand how it could be powered up so easily. I’m not sure I’m a fan of the stand – it looks like an aesthetic gimmick and I can see it being more prone to being knocked over; it also doesn’t look like the sturdiest thing. Nevertheless I’m glad to see people challenging perspectives of the PC – I just wonder if it will be upgradable.