The Eee Box is the latest addition to the Eee family, and this article takes a closer look at setting up and using the Eee Box. “Unless you’ve had your head in the sand for the past several months, you’ve probably heard of Asus’ line of Eee PC laptops – low-cost, ultra-portable laptops with solid-state hard disk drives. Over the past several months, the Eee PC has evolved. Newer laptop models come with Linux as well as Windows XP Home, standard hard disk drives, and even the new Intel Atom processor. Now, we have a desktop version of the Eee PC – the Eee Box. Here, I will detail the unpacking and initial setup of an Eee Box unit using text and images.”
Tried it out over at Central Computer with
Asus rep.. heck .. very nice !!!
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.
Yes, you must need the smaller form factor or power footprint. But those are pretty compelling.
Both factors make it a candidate for a living room PC for me. Quiet running is another benefit.
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.
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.