More details and press shots of ASUS Eee Box

In typical ASUS style, it utterly failed in dishing out a nice gallery of press shots to go along with the official unveiling of the Atom-powered Eee Box. Nevertheless, those photographs you've been hankering for have finally appeared, with luscious high-resolution angles of the white, black and "red" Eee Box. For the whole gallery along with a few informational pages on how this miniature PC is guaranteed to revolutionize the way you compute, give the read link down there a little love.

[Thanks, Sascha]

[yode @ Jun 25th 2008 9:08PM]

More like EXACTLY like a Wii. Eee. Wii. Cool...

[maff @ Jun 25th 2008 9:10PM]

small, only 1L!!!!! hehe, it's not a drink, Asus

[ThePengwin @ Jun 25th 2008 10:19PM]

But if it was, think of the eeenergy it would give you!

[Ignatius @ Jun 25th 2008 11:07PM]

Liters are a measure of volume.

[KAIKAI @ Jun 25th 2008 9:11PM]

wow i knew sum1 was gonna get the apple related post hawt damn that was fast

[hiko36 @ Jun 25th 2008 9:12PM]

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.

[John @ Jun 25th 2008 9:15PM]

This should come with a TV tuner so I can use it as a DVR.

[aemond @ Jun 25th 2008 9:40PM]

+1

[Peter @ Jun 26th 2008 4:43AM]

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.

[Kris @ Jun 25th 2008 9:20PM]

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.

[Peter @ Jun 26th 2008 4:43AM]

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.

[Dagreenman18 @ Jun 26th 2008 1:13PM]

Im actually pretty stoked for this. i need a good cheap desktop for when i start school in the fall. This is perfect.

[Inkreef @ Jun 25th 2008 9:26PM]

Please STOP quoting irrelevant things with your post. Your post is NOT a Starbucks coffee cup.

[Haikibutsu @ Jun 25th 2008 9:26PM]

Looks like a Wii you idiot.

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[Haikibutsu @ Jun 25th 2008 9:28PM]

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

[michaelportent @ Jun 25th 2008 10:00PM]

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.

[aemond @ Jun 25th 2008 9:42PM]

Any price indication?

[Kyle @ Jun 25th 2008 9:49PM]

Nice, Asus Wii Pc

[kccboy2004 @ Jun 25th 2008 9:49PM]

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.

[kccboy2004 @ Jun 25th 2008 9:50PM]

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.

[kccboy2004 @ Jun 25th 2008 9:53PM]

this is gonna be mine. I am gonna need a bigger house though, soon..

[eggothewaffle @ Jun 25th 2008 9:54PM]

Can it play 720p movies?

[Castaa @ Jun 25th 2008 11:57PM]

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.

[Adrian Williams @ Jun 25th 2008 10:12PM]

What is the price

[kccboy2004 @ Jun 25th 2008 10:13PM]

@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

[Rick @ Jun 25th 2008 10:14PM]

More vaporware like the Eee 1000H, the MSI Wind with 6-cell battery, the new Dell E4200, E4300, E6400, E6500, etc., etc.,etc.

[uagent @ Jun 25th 2008 10:16PM]

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;;

[Paul @ Jun 25th 2008 10:35PM]

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.

[uagent @ Jun 26th 2008 12:47AM]

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.

[kccboy2004 @ Jun 25th 2008 10:17PM]

@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 ?

[tojfs7931 @ Jun 25th 2008 10:28PM]

How much do you wanna bet Nintendo will sue for being too much like the wii???

[michas_pi @ Jun 25th 2008 10:41PM]

Some of clak's comments make me ashamed that I am a fan of Apple and their products.

[Decoy @ Jun 25th 2008 11:09PM]

It's got a big nipple ring. I'm gonna put car keys on it.

[Owen @ Jun 25th 2008 11:12PM]

This would probably work great as a base for a carputer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carputer

[Wiigee @ Jun 26th 2008 12:21AM]

no Linux option? come on! once linux is installed , this will be a great home server. cant wait to pick one up!

[Lamp @ Jun 26th 2008 12:54AM]

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...

[Travis @ Jun 25th 2008 11:23PM]

Where did you say the Hi-Res pictures are located?

[Big Al @ Jun 25th 2008 11:44PM]

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 :)

[rancor182 @ Jun 26th 2008 12:01AM]

i've been thinking about this for a while, what do you guys think about creating a "lowest ranked" level just for clak....

[insertAlias @ Jun 26th 2008 12:18AM]

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[happy_penguin @ Jun 26th 2008 2:33AM]

I think this is a nice little machine. Too bad I can't say the same for so many of the comments above me.

[kccboy2004 @ Jun 26th 2008 3:34AM]

@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

[Peter @ Jun 26th 2008 4:42AM]

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!

[jimmorrisonstew @ Jul 8th 2008 10:55AM]

I would still prefer a Kapsel Media PC in my living room, they look similar ish, with the metal stand.