ASUS Eee Keyboard gets a price and launch date
By Donald Melanson 
posted January 6th 2010 6:32AM
posted January 6th 2010 6:32AM
We saw it clear the FCC a few months back, and retooled slightly shortly thereafter, and it looks like ASUS' Eee Keyboard is now finally nearing an actual release. The latest official word is that it'll roll out sometime in February, and run between $499 and $599. No more last minute spec changes from the looks of it, which means you can expect the usual Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 16GB SSD (upgradeable to 32GB), and a built-in battery that promises to last for four hours -- and, of course, that 5-inch touchscreen. Considering how long this thing has been floating about, however, we'll have to see this one for ourselves to fully believe it.
I has been one year already and they still have not release the product. I can't believe they actually going to release the product.
@k2001
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@k2001
By the time it gets released it will have been out-of-date by several months, Seriously they need to place a dual core atom processor or a CULV in it.
@m2h
I assumed it was clearly obvious that my previous post was about it's specifications and not it's functions.
@Federaly was worthless a year ago. I can't imagine what changed :D
FAIL written all over it.
@m2h Agreed. This is something I would get my parents - they would love the idea of using their TV as a computer/monitor. Doesn't matter to them that it can't play Crysis; Does It Work and Wow It Is Really Thin are the two statements coming from them.
can you guys tell me 'when' can I buy ASUS 1005PE in Singapore ? or other N450 atom models ?
and to think i filed this under vaporware.
@Eraser At this point it would be better just to take it out behind the barn and put it out of it's misery. Between $499 and $599? Really? Ouch!
@Khris
Especially since, apparently, there's no knowledge if you can upgrade from 1GB of RAM to, at least, 2GB.
And to think, I wanted to buy one for my livingroom.
Why do you claim that you haven't seen it when you have a pic of it? (And with the Engadget watermark, no less.) Are you going to pull another Thinkpad Edge?
*wink wink nudge nudge*
@Stoichiometry
Engadget have been using that same picture on eeeboard articles for the best part of a year.
Are there any wireless HDMI monitors available to take advantage of it?
@MacMan
Wait, wireless keyboard + wireless monitor... Let me think. Oh! It's a typical laptop?
@Deten
Not really answering the question are you ;)
Is anyone actually going to use the battery on this thing
@evera Maybe to short circuit it and start a fire if you're lost in the wilderness and the only thing you have is your Eee Keyboard!
"Sometime in February..." When the title of the article says Eee Keyboard Recieves Price and Release Date isn't that saying you actually know the date, not just the latest word it "could be" sometime in February?
It's a great idea...
But at this point it may be too little, too late.
Especially so at that price point from what others are claiming they will have available.
Shouldn't the headline read "ballpark price, ballpark date?"
@(Unverified) No, because then Engadget would have to start changing ALL their story titles to be more accurate.
man, this is something kinda new and kewl, check out the video of the keyboard at CeBit - http://bit.ly/6LwfQ1
@madmax123
It is no longer *that* new - your video dates to March last year after all.
Could probably pick one of these up in japan for about £40 but i like the idea.
Why pay this price tag for a it? i could buy a proper PC or a Notebook for the same price.
This is a serious question: Why would somebody want to buy this? Does it have some use that I'm not thinking of? It doesn't seem practical to me.
This better have an N450 at release. Please?
I can see a use for it.
Those "free" internet stations they have at mall food courts that make you watch ads in exchange for a couple minutes of web browsing or email.
One could build a new model that runs the ads constantly on the 5" screen instead of interrupting the browsing or email, and the person using the thing could touch the screen to purchase whatever is being shown in the ad.
Would also work for those "free" phones in food courts and anything else that requires advertising to use
Boy, a N270 in there makes me a sad puppy. Wireless HDMI and at least the N450 plus a minimum of 2 GB ram please or this thing is worthless.
This thing is so gorgeous.... It's like the TI-99/4A all over again.
At first I thought, "$500 for a keyboard with a small touchscreen on it?!?"
But then I was like :) because I saw it also housed a net-top.
Can I use this with a macbook pro?
What a waste of money
wish they would make a cheap version without the cpu and display - just keyboard and trackpad in one, bluetooth ideally.
still want one, but just purely for testing. i could do with something as small as this that has everything i need. i agree with rozzi, a cheaper version would be great, although the only thing that i wouldn't need is the display!