Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Mon 12th Oct 2009 20:08 UTC
Aspects of the mouth-watering Eee Keyboard have been mysterious since we first heard about it at the beginning of this year. Now that the FCC has had a go at the device and has released its documents, we have sweet description in full. "Several of the documents hidden from our anxious eyes during the FCC filing have now gone public. Not only can you visually inspect its innards, the feds have also laid bare the full spec sheet for the ASUS Eee Keyboard model EK1542. Beneath the 5-inch, 800 x 480 pixel touch panel (with stylus) we'll be getting Windows XP Home running on an Intel Atom N270, 945GSE / ICH7-M chipset with Broadcom AV-VD905 video decoder, 1GB of DDR2 memory, either 16GB or 32GB of flash storage, 4-hour battery, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, gigabit Ethernet, HDMI and VGA outputs, integrated stereo speakers and mic, 3x USB, headphone and mic jacks, and external WiFi / UWB antenna. The Eee Keyboard's on-board Ultra-Wideband (UWB) throws 720p content to your TV within a 5-meter range (10-meters for non-video transmissions) via a UWB receiver packing 2x USB ports, another mini-USB port, audio out, and HDMI. You can even connect to two external monitors at the same time using UWB and either VGA or HDMI cable. Now all we need is a final date and price... ASUS?"
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Don't get pulled in by the looks, this thing has slightly worse hardware than some netbooks.
Pretty much identical to most netbooks actually... except for the added "broadcom video" thing (which I'm guessing is some proprietary decoder chip that only has Windows drivers)... and the UWB thing, which also probably only works on Windows
It's kind of neat otherwise, but definitely falls short of my expectations. I have a reasonably cheap machine with 1TB of storage attached to my TV with a wireless keyboard/touchpad already... and I have my reasonably cheap AA1 netbook for traveling... so I have pretty much no interest in this device at this point.
I predict a flop.
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Atom n270? Seriously? Intel 945 chipset again, seriously? And can we kill off XP already? It's time for it to go. After seeing these specs I don't care how stylish or cool it is, the hardware and os are just bad comparedto what's available for use. Don't get pulled in by the looks, this thing has slightly worse hardware than some netbooks.