bonkon
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The eee box has been released in Taiwan and will be hitting the US soon. Although I am a big fan of netbooks and it's weight, I couldn't care less about the eee box. What is the point of having a small underpowered desktop with no optical drive (CD/DVD rom)?
Then the prices show up starting at $269 for the Linux version. It consumes less than 20W at load (full capacity) for comparison a standard non gaming PC consumes 7-10 times more. You can screw it behind your screen or TV for a neat workplace if it is not mounted to a wall. It has a small fan but is relatively silent and some ppl modified it to a fanless device and I just found out that it has a s/pdif out to feed dacs, two important factors for an audio source.
The real downside is that it uses 2.5" hard drives which are limited to 500GB. You can get a 320GB for less than $100 but a 500GB is still expensive at more than $220 which is almost the price of an eee box.
Would you consider it as a second desktop and audio source?
Some pics to see how small it is and the dimensions
Dimensions: 8.5″ x 7″ x 1″
Net Weight: 2.2 lbs.
Gross Weight: 6.6 lbs.
US Configurations and MSRP:
$269 1GB memory + 80GB HDD Linux edition
$299 1GB memory + 80GB HDD XP edition
$299 2GB memory + 160GB HDD Linux edition
Then the prices show up starting at $269 for the Linux version. It consumes less than 20W at load (full capacity) for comparison a standard non gaming PC consumes 7-10 times more. You can screw it behind your screen or TV for a neat workplace if it is not mounted to a wall. It has a small fan but is relatively silent and some ppl modified it to a fanless device and I just found out that it has a s/pdif out to feed dacs, two important factors for an audio source.
The real downside is that it uses 2.5" hard drives which are limited to 500GB. You can get a 320GB for less than $100 but a 500GB is still expensive at more than $220 which is almost the price of an eee box.
Would you consider it as a second desktop and audio source?
Some pics to see how small it is and the dimensions
Dimensions: 8.5″ x 7″ x 1″
Net Weight: 2.2 lbs.
Gross Weight: 6.6 lbs.
US Configurations and MSRP:
$269 1GB memory + 80GB HDD Linux edition
$299 1GB memory + 80GB HDD XP edition
$299 2GB memory + 160GB HDD Linux edition