ASUS Eee PC desktop finally revealed?
By Ryan Block 
posted March 29th 2008 2:54AM
posted March 29th 2008 2:54AM
posted March 29th 2008 2:54AM
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This thing is damnd sexy looking.
Wiiiiiiiiiiii Ner
ASUS is on "making the budget market look sexy" spree
They must be related to Toyota. I love it.
Yeaaaaaaaaah, I love my Yaris (sedan). 35 MPG, under $15K and it looks pretty cool, at least I think so.
I can see myself playing Doom on the black one.
This is gonna be $200? Awesome.
Heck, I'll buy a few of them if it's only $200! What OS will it be running?
A simple to use, stable, small footprint reasonably priced desktop with no huge upscaling cost commitment? Look like Asus have got another winner on their hands to me! Well done again ASUS it seems you alone understand what consumers really want.
Kinda looks like a Kurobox.
I'll be getting one, especially at that price point. I actually need to replace my Kurobox, since I done brick it.
WOW! That is hot, and is an awesome idea! Many people just want a small PC to browse the net and stuff and this is just perfect. This will surely sell heaps!
WEee PC
Looks like exactly what I need. I can see STARTING with an order for about a dozen. I have a specialized need for data collection PC's. I've been using thin client PC's (fanless, diskless) for a couple of years now -- Wyse makes a nice one, Devon IT makes one, and many others. I like a particular gray market one. The run Windows XPe (embedded) and need only half a gig of flash for a drive (though for me, a 1gb flash is better). Cost is ~$500 for something like this (at 800mhz, 1gb flash, 512m ram), though you can find cheaper versions.
No, it doesn't. Why? A lot of households pay a lot and get good bandwidth, but have maybe 1 or 2 actual power users in the home. A cheapie like this allows the non-power-users a computer without a resident power user, with which to check their facebook and email, check their balance on online banking, watch the latest homestar cartoon, listen to pandora, and play endlessly on neopets.
And on the plus side for us power users, not only does it get them out of our hair, it gives them their special own place to foolishly download smiley central away from our friggin partition. Viva La Eee!
So yes, I can see the market for this. just not for the typical engadget reader as much. Although heck, who knows, if this thing runs for less than 450 I might buy it and make a little mini-desk next to mine so people can keep me company.
Engadget, I could make some rant about how you don't let us delete accidental comments (this was meant to be a reply), but i'll spare you and just ask if it's ever going to be a possibility. because if it's not i'll quit my whining and accept my low rank.
It looks like a Wii with a towel rack attached.
no usb or card reader slots? looks fake to me.
I hope it's got a decent HD space and it'll go up against the mac mini at a significantly lower price... Seeking a desktop replacement now.. don't want anything expensive and power hungry.
It would seem to be much cheaper than a Mini-ITX or similar computer. I have something called a LEX, which is a very small computer! It cost me £200 not many moons ago and only runs at 400MHz! I hope this is £100 so I can buy a few to play with for low power consumption internet browsing and maybe playing around making it a thin client or groovin' internet radio box :-)
Eee = Wii?
Ok so I guess ANY pc that fits the Mini-ITX standard, in a vertical position is a Nintendo copycat. Never mind the fact that Mini-ITX and the designs that popped up around it easily predate the Wii. These designers were obviously using corporate controlled mind-readers to steal the designs a couple years before Nintendo could get the Wii out the door.
if they can produce a version with tv outputs and it costs less than $300 then I'm all over it.
looks like a wii
I could get into suggesting these to people. General use like email, web games, word documents, etc.
I think this could be a really cool, space saving solution to my customer base of "housewife users".
I sincerely hope that you can upgrade the parts in these.
This could be the Consumer Tower Mac that Apple never made.
wow
Dammit Apple, I believe a Mac mini redesign is in order now!
Yeah my photoshop sensors are going off...
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Make it less than $400 and I'm all in.
Seems to remind me of the Wii look and feel...hmmm..
Okay take it and turn it upside down. Voila! You get a squished head of one of the droids off starwars w/ a halo!
Okay, its a stretch, but thats what I thought of first...
This thing had better have a FREAKING DVI OR HDMI PORT!!! If it only has VGA out, it might as well be a doorstop.
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Seems perfect as a small and silent web server. I know I'd like to retire my 800Mhz desktop that's taking up space in my room.
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