ASUS Eee Top now available for pre-order at Amazon

Been looking for an inexpensive all-in-one to unify your life, something that your zombie slave Fido could use in the kitchen to look up recipes yet would also look equally good perched on a minimalist desk? ASUS's first Eee Top could fit the bill, and it looks to be very close to US availability with the appearance of a pre-order page on Amazon.com. The 15.6-inch touchscreen model has the standard 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of memory, and XP installed on a 160GB drive. Right now it's available in either black or white, and whether you're choosing the presence or absence of all colors you'll be asked to pay $599.99 -- naturally with free shipping available if you're not in too much of a hurry.

[Via Eee PC - Blog]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 3:39PM]

Now we are talking.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 3:46PM]

What I don't get is why there are not more touchscreens out there at competitive pricing.

At this price I can at last have one in each room to access my Sonos, my Thermal regulation and my Video monitors.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 10:10PM]

what about your sharks with the frickin' laser beams on their heads?

[Blastar Posted Mar 4th 2009 8:38AM]

What about the Version with ATi Radeon HD3450 ?
Did they cancel it already ?

Take a look at the Google-Cached link from Asus->
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:AQlAB7udhCMJ:www.asus.com/products.aspx%3Fl1%3D24%26l2%3D169%26l3%3D0%26l4%3D0%26model%3D2629%26modelmenu%3D1+asus+eeetop+ati+radeon&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4

[brotato Posted Mar 3rd 2009 3:42PM]

This would make a great computer for the kitchen or kids but its hard to pay that much for an atom cpu.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 3:59PM]

Good price although I'm sceptical about the touch screen capabilities not getting jerky during heavy load, as there is nothing more annoying than a slow touch screen device. Dual core atom can't come soon enough.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 5:07PM]

Dual core atom has been here for 6 months. This will most likely be running Dual core

[Ahmedz Posted Mar 3rd 2009 3:43PM]

I already saw some for sale over here in Bahrain

prices are around BD 250 I think (around $630)

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 3:47PM]

This is a PC only my wife could love.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 3:56PM]

@.o why ppl need a touchscreen at home?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 4:06PM]

omg - why would you not need a touchscreen ?

1.sonos
2. thermal
3. video

a touchscreen does not need a mouse !!! therefore no flat surface required, no secondary unit to interface with. yes i can use a gyro mouse, but this is way more handy.


WHY would you need a touchscreen at work ?

BTW - do you have kids ?

[JerkyChew Posted Mar 3rd 2009 4:11PM]

The Amazon page is short on specs - Same boring Intel video I assume? That wallmount pic is badass but since Atom + Intel can only do SD video I'll pass this in anticipation of some VDPAU action.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 4:23PM]

I just pre-ordered mine. :) Been waiting awhile. I developed a touchscreen Kitchen app. It has Recipes, Mixed drinks, Music playlists, 3 timers, grocery list via a UPC scanner, to do list, and more. Cant wait to get it working.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 5:08PM]

That is really cool. Are you gonna distribute ?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 4:27PM]

Everything about this is cool. But... why not dual-core atom? That $150 crappy MSI Wind box on Newegg has had one for a long time. Total dealbreaker!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 4:38PM]

You know, with a 15.6" screen, it makes me wonder why someone wouldn't get a laptop instead. Same price, usually better specs (i.e. non-Atom processor), roughly same screen size, and mobility is a *huge* perk even if you will only occasionally carry it around.

This new model at least has a touch-screen as a fairly unique feature, but older ones didn't have even that. What am I missing?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 12:55AM]

If I'm not mistaken, there's a model with a built-in battery in the works -- if it's not already out in Europe -- so that covers mobility.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 4:41PM]

I really want one of these touchscreens in a normal ASUS G50 or something.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 4:44PM]

Pretty sure I will get one to act as a wall mounted juke box..hooked up to the stereo

[danfinuc Posted Mar 3rd 2009 5:00PM]

For work, idk, maybe a kiosk. Depends how long those touchscreens would last. For something as simple as a web-based kiosk, that's relatively cheap. Compared with a tablet with an extended battery for $2200.

[glennS Posted Mar 3rd 2009 5:07PM]

So it is a touchscreen all-in-one PC. Isn't that called a "tablet PC". So this is a tablet that is not portable. And it is under-powered to boot. Great, sign me up. NOT.

Ok, kidding aside, I can see where this might be put to a specific use, as some have already suggested here. But as a general purpose PC, I don't think so. I can get a pretty decent laptop for 6 bills.

Oh, and the whole kitchen PC thing. I don't need my kitchen PC to be touchscreen. Sure, that would be OK. But I really want it to have a good voice recognition interface. When I am in the kitchen, my hands are occupied with cooking, or cleaning something. I don't want to smear whatever grease/food/dirt is on my hands on the screen just to search for recipes, or whatever.

[dallashigh Posted Mar 3rd 2009 5:26PM]

If the history of the rest of the Eee line is any indication, this thing will be $300-350 within 6 months.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 5:46PM]

@Ahmedz
Where have you seen these in the UK? im very interested to know...

@kccboy2004
What do you use for your thermal control? im quite interested to set this up myself.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 9:12PM]

As much as I love Asus and the eee line, I have to say Shuttle did this better with the X50, everything wrong with this machine is fixed dual core atom, XP Pro, and $100 cheaper to boot. You could playback HD video on it, I've been doing that on my i945GCLF2 for months now and love it. Albeit, HD video on a 16" screen isn't anything to get too excited about :)

http://www.slashgear.com/shuttle-x50-all-in-one-touchscreen-nettop-with-atom-330-dual-core-1530633/

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 3:02AM]

You purchased your X50? Where?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 1:15AM]

Thanks for the heads up, now I am waiting for T91 to hit amazon!