Asus Eee Box Gets Unboxed Down Under
Start saving your gold coin change, because at $429 the Asus Eee Box is as cheap as desktops PCs are likely to come in Australia.
People looking for a powerhouse: look elsewhere – this is cheap and nasty, running Windows XP on a 1.6Ghz Atom processor, with 1GB of memory and an 80GB hard drive. It’s got 802.11n built-in, along with 2 USB and a memory card reader (SD, SDHC, MMC, Memory Stick).
As you can see from the image above, it’s available in a range of colours, although in Australia, we have the better option of only getting black units. Nobody likes individuality anyway.
It’s not perfect, obviously - there’s no optical drive – but if you have an old monitor lying around somewhere, you could use this as a backup PC for email or web browsing.
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I want to try one of these with a Linux media center distro in the bedroom.
People will complain about no optical drive, but not me as I plan to share everything off the network. Who wants to bother shuffling CD’s and DVD’s anyhow?
Had a hands on with one of these couple weeks back and damn is it sexy!
I hope Asus start offering these machines without XP, having Linux like the rest of the eee range.
I just noticed on Whirlpool that online retailers already have these. I love the VESA mount too.