http://www.osnews.com/story/20264/Review_Eee_Box Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:24:07 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?329668 http://osnews.com/thread?329668 Tried it out over at Central Computer with
Asus rep.. heck .. very nice !!! Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (beosguy@gmail.com) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?329699 http://osnews.com/thread?329699 Well, this eee pc is nice. But if you go to a second hand computer store you can buy a faster computer for less money. So I really don't see the point in buying this computer if you are low on cash. Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wkleunen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?329701 http://osnews.com/thread?329701 Yes, you must need the smaller form factor or power footprint. But those are pretty compelling. Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pepa) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?329737 http://osnews.com/thread?329737 Both factors make it a candidate for a living room PC for me. Quiet running is another benefit. Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (B12 Simon) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?329748 http://osnews.com/thread?329748 Got mine last week and it's mind boggling as to how quite that thing is. I took of Windows XP Home and installed Xubuntu 8.04 with compiz and it works great. Going to be getting another LCD soon and mounting it on the back so it would be an all-in-one unit thingy. Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (motang) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?330046 http://osnews.com/thread?330046 Asus EEE notebook was a nice idea. Small enough just to carry it around the house or take along on vacation. Cheap enough that it would be a total disaster if it gets crushed or lost in your travel luggage. Rugged without harddisk and CPU fan, so less worry about mechanical component failures.

Now Asus makes a minimal desktop PC. I like a compact box but making it this tiny is not a good idea.

- When the box is small you get more problems with heat dissipation unless you run the CPU/components below spec.
- A desktop PC but there is no DVD drive and even worse there is no space to fit one in, so you can only add it as external drive - just more desk clutter.
- Hard disk is 2.5", good if you need to carry it around, but on desktop PC 3.5" hard disk can be cheaper, faster and have much more space for the same money.

My vote for minimal desktop/living-room PC will be rather be an ITX or similar standard form factor. Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rif42) Comments