http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/ Engadget Comments for ASUS Eee Top touchscreen PC zombie hands-on http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Jan 11th 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/
But, my question is, why didn't mac make a touchscreen like this? I remember back in the 80's my aunt (a mac hardware engineer) brought home a touchscreen clip on for her mac and I thought it was pretty cool.

Now Apple has the iphone UI - if they blew it up to the size of a computer, it would be just as good as one of these all-in-one family "kitchen" computers...so why not? A 15 inch touchscreen screen with a slot loading DVD drive - with the same internals as a high end mac mini would be so trendy I think.]]>Jan 11th 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/It's in the right price for sure, in comparison with the most touch-screen able systems (of course there are some exceptions but NOT many) that cost the earth FOR NO REASON AT ALL.]]>Jan 11th 2009 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/I 've heard that there will be a version that will have an ATI 3450 ? Can anyone confirm that ?]]>Jan 11th 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Jan 12th 2009 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/
Because Apple was busy working on the MacBook Wheel]]>Jan 11th 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Apple will only sell the thing from which it can squeeze most profit out of the members of its sect. ]]>Jan 11th 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/asus-finally-details-et1602-et1603-eee-top-all-in-one-pcs/

The only thing missing is a HDTV tuner and a Bluray player. Hopefully they can be dongled in....]]>Jan 11th 2009 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Jan 11th 2009 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Jan 11th 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Jan 11th 2009 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Jan 11th 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/

i am liking this.]]>Jan 11th 2009 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/
I have a fujitsu lifebook tablet (vista), and the handwriting recognition still isnt quite there.]]>Jan 11th 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/
Also, they should add a cheap Aero capable graphics cheap and make one for 7.]]>Jan 11th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Jan 11th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/I wonder if it would be able to play all the h.264 videos I have, with integrated graphics, or should I possibly wait for the rumored Radeon 3450. (if anyone happens to know that would be great!)]]>Jan 11th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/I'm afraid I will also end up buyng one of these (maybe the Shuttle with the atom duo); but the maximum screen size for a touch screen interface is no more than 15/16 inches , otherways you'll end up standing to close to the screen and hurting your eyes.
I'm even more intrigued by asus eee k-board with included touch screen PC, I absolutely want one of these to steer my HTPC set up.]]>Jan 11th 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/
try harder.]]>Jan 11th 2009 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/
Try harder]]>Jan 11th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/
My only complaint, it appears all of the USB ports are on the back of the machine. It would have been nice to have one located on the front or side for easier access, as I use a thumb drive on a regular basis.]]>Jan 11th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Jan 11th 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Jan 11th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/
I currently have a touch screen in the kitchen running OS X off of a Mac Mini and while the Mac lends itself to better touch screen than XP, the bar at the top is difficult to press...]]>Jan 11th 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Cause I can build something similar, yet not as sexy for $300.
If it costs anything close to that, I have to cancel some ebay bids I have currently.]]>Jan 11th 2009 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Jan 11th 2009 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Jan 11th 2009 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Jan 11th 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/
And the virtual keyboard's capitalisation mechanism is unnecessarily complicated - why not simply press and hold to capitalise? If it presented other options for the letters, accents and so forth, then I can see the utility of making the user select something after holding it down, but if it's just for capitalisation, it's completely unnecessary, and, as the video shows, hard to use.

The rep's spiel about touch being easy to use and good for older people is right - I'd love to give one of these to my grandmother, but with some seriously counter-intuitive software design, I don't think I will be.]]>Jan 11th 2009 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/
Oh but Auditorium? That would be beautiful... More so if you connect this baby to an Audio System

Now, getting to the nitty gritty... Does anybody know if this thing will come out with Linux? (I mean, it could make it less expensive than $599)]]>Jan 11th 2009 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/For HDTV support (once they will be emitting HDTV signals via TDT) I bought the Asus MyCinema U3100.


So far the only disadvantages I can see are that you cannot easily customize the Easy Mode that Asus Built in. In order to change links and the icons and descriptions for extra programs I installed, I had to meddle 1. with the registry (for the links), 2. with the files on the hard disk (for the icons) and 3. with a hex editor on the coded configuration file. And the thing is, that this configuration file suggests that ASUS has a tool that automatically creates these files for the easy menu, so I wonder why it's not available to the community...

Apart from the menu probs, the machine ocasionally "forgets" that it has a wireless card and sometime forgets the Opera settings. Both can be taken care of by a reboot and I cannot say whether this is a production series problem or just our EEE Top.

Don't let these two comments fool you though, the EEE Top is a fantastic little device, that makes computing so much easier especially for those that didn't already have a Commodore 64 in their crib. Skype video telephony, TV, Email, webbrowsing, all works with the ease of touching a (large and easily visible) button. Plus it's stylish and easy to move and gives a real value add e.g. in the kitchen.]]>Jan 12th 2009 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/Jan 12th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/]]>Jan 12th 2009 11:23AM