More details and press shots of ASUS Eee Box
By Darren Murph 
posted Jun 25th 2008 9:00PM
posted Jun 25th 2008 9:00PM
[Thanks, Sascha]
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More like EXACTLY like a Wii. Eee. Wii. Cool...
small, only 1L!!!!! hehe, it's not a drink, Asus
But if it was, think of the eeenergy it would give you!
Liters are a measure of volume.
wow i knew sum1 was gonna get the apple related post hawt damn that was fast
I'm actually pretty excited for this. I have a beige box next to my entertainment system and this would be a great replacement for it.
This should come with a TV tuner so I can use it as a DVR.
+1
I don't think it has enough CPU power to do so. Although I was thinking of taking out the mini pci-e wifi card and replacing it with a tv tuner that has hardware decode builtin.
This seems like a great little box for me to use has a small file server. The only issue is I'd have to hook up external drives for redundancy. Still cool none the less.
If you want a small box for NAS with redundancy you'd be better off getting something like a DLink DNS-323 (2 drives) or the new DNS-343 with 4 drives. Small, quite, cheap and can byo drives.
Im actually pretty stoked for this. i need a good cheap desktop for when i start school in the fall. This is perfect.
Please STOP quoting irrelevant things with your post. Your post is NOT a Starbucks coffee cup.
Looks like a Wii you idiot.
EAT YOUR APPLES!
Hey, Clak, remember when you said you would leave.
forever.
Also, the only reason your profile is set to private is because you are ashamed of your posts.
I love sucking balls - Clak
Sorry, Asus. You may have a great product, but designing it eerily like a Nintendo Wii in efforts to boost your sales by proxy isn't gonna win any bonus points with me.
Any price indication?
Nice, Asus Wii Pc
If it looks like a vertical Mac Mini lets hope that it does not replicate the Mac in other ways. Please don't let it:
1. Be supplied with an appalling 4200 rpm Hard Drive
2. Please don't let the Hard Drive fail repeatedly
3. Please don't let it hang-up repeatedly (unlikely since its not running OSX).
4. Please don't let the white plastic top discolor and turn a sordid orangey. (At least have the decency to just start off organe liek the Dell Bamboo !)
5. Please have a proper power connection at the back, please don't have the power cord fall out all the time, no magnetic gimmicks.
6. Please don't continually prompt me for updates to Quicktime, iTunes and other stuff (why couldn't Apple just get it right the first time).
7. Please don't have the video card fail completely.
8. Please don't have me resetting the Eprom every damned week.
9. Please don't have the Fan go wild - it won't sound like an aircraft taking off all the time.
Oh and please allow me to stand this veritcally or horizontally. Now that would be an innovative good idea.
...I think it's gonna be ok. This is not an Apple.
I wish people would stop making these unkind comments:
[[ Steve Jobs - "The Emperor with no Clothes" ]]
[[OSX - "A Pig With Lipstick"
Even if they are true they are hurtful and designed to be so. Stop it.
If it looks like a vertical Mac Mini lets hope that it does not replicate the Mac in other ways. Please don't let it:
1. Be supplied with an appalling 4200 rpm Hard Drive
2. Please don't let the Hard Drive fail repeatedly
3. Please don't let it hang-up repeatedly (unlikely since its not running OSX).
4. Please don't let the white plastic top discolor and turn a sordid orangey. (At least have the decency to just start off organe liek the Dell Bamboo !)
5. Please have a proper power connection at the back, please don't have the power cord fall out all the time, no magnetic gimmicks.
6. Please don't continually prompt me for updates to Quicktime, iTunes and other stuff (why couldn't Apple just get it right the first time).
7. Please don't have the video card fail completely.
8. Please don't have me resetting the Eprom every damned week.
9. Please don't have the Fan go wild - it won't sound like an aircraft taking off all the time.
Oh and please allow me to stand this veritcally or horizontally. Now that would be an innovative good idea.
...I think it's gonna be ok. This is not an Apple.
I wish people would stop making these unkind comments:
[[ Steve Jobs - "The Emperor with no Clothes" ]]
[[OSX - "A Pig With Lipstick"
Even if they are true they are hurtful and designed to be so. Stop it.
this is gonna be mine. I am gonna need a bigger house though, soon..
Can it play 720p movies?
Yes it can. It can software decode MPEG-4 video files at 720p but nothing higher resolution than that. Anandtech did a review of this box and that's what they found.
What is the price
@clak
I would never ever ever accuse you of telling half the story, or of omitting pertinent facts...but....your quote struck me as being missing something...like the middle. It should read...
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry. The Korova Milkbar was a milk-plus mesto, and you may, O my brother, have forgotten what these mestos where like things changing so skorry these days and everybody very quick to forget, newspaper not being read much neither. Well, what they sold there was milk plus something else. They had no license for selling liquor, but there was no law yet against prodding some of the some of the new veshches which they would put into the old moloko, so you could peet it with vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom or one or two other veshches which would give you a nice quiet horrorshow fifteen minutes admiring Bog And All His Holy Angels And Saints in your left shoe with lights bursting all over your mozg. Or you could peet it with knives in it, as we use to say, and this would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of dirty twenty-to-one, and that was what we were peeting this evening I’m starting off the story with. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
More vaporware like the Eee 1000H, the MSI Wind with 6-cell battery, the new Dell E4200, E4300, E6400, E6500, etc., etc.,etc.
Wow, apparently Asus has revealed Microsoft's dark secret:
Slide 1:
"Asus Box Features:
...
Operating System: Windows XP Home"
Slide 3:
"...
The Linux based operating system..."
So there you have it, people. The reason everyone loves XP's stability is because it is based off of Linux?!? O_o;;
That and the fact that there are numerous typos and grammatical snafus leads me to believe that this is either an early draft or a complete hoax.
I'm guessing early draft. They've been offering Linux and XP, hopefully they would continue to do the same. It'd make an awesome central server for my apartment if it were Linux.
@clak
Maybe being the turtlenecked metrosexual rebel that you are, just maybe you are associating with Alex..
...to become good and free at the same time and get out quickly, nothing wrong with that at all. But he does not realize that his eagerness is blinding him from the oppression and he is being robbed of his moral freedom.
Ring any bells ?
How much do you wanna bet Nintendo will sue for being too much like the wii???
Some of clak's comments make me ashamed that I am a fan of Apple and their products.
It's got a big nipple ring. I'm gonna put car keys on it.
This would probably work great as a base for a carputer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carputer
no Linux option? come on! once linux is installed , this will be a great home server. cant wait to pick one up!
oooo you use linux???
wow, you successfully flaunted that.
if you are computer savvy as you play yourself off as,
wipe the hard drive and install it yourself...
Where did you say the Hi-Res pictures are located?
Wow, I'm continually surprised at how much of a reaction that Clak can get from you guys.
I wouldn't be surprised if Clak really hated Apple but is pretending to be an overzealous Apple Fanboy just to annoy everyone. Or, better yet, he could be an Apple stockholder who keeps throwing out the name of Apple products to keep interest high, creating more Engadget posts about Apple products and ultimately generating more sales... but that's just the conspiracy theorist inside me having some fun.
Oh, and the Eee Box looks cool :)
i've been thinking about this for a while, what do you guys think about creating a "lowest ranked" level just for clak....
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I think this is a nice little machine. Too bad I can't say the same for so many of the comments above me.
@clak
Apologist:
I really did like the use of the word apologist.
Bigot:
I am really very glad that you did not tread on the hallowed grounds of the word "Bigot".
Of course there are lots of ways of defining this word, all amounting to the same thing. But I particularly like that of Wikipedia:
"Bigot is often used as a pejorative term against a person who is obstinately devoted to prejudices even when these views are challenged or proven to be false or not universally applicable or acceptable."
Of course there is dear old merriam-webster chipping in with:
Bigot : "a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance"
Apple Fan Boy = Bigot ?
The Good Guys = Apologist ?
Yep, that's about right
The wifi marketing is somewhat amusing. If something is 6 times faster how can downloading a HD video that previously took 10 minutes suddenly take 44 second! The maths don't add up! Got to love marketing!
I would still prefer a Kapsel Media PC in my living room, they look similar ish, with the metal stand.