EEE Box

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The long rumored EEE desktop is now official!

http://gizmodo.com/394563/asus-eee-box-b202-our-first-look-plus-official-specs-only-300

The other toy Asus brought for us to look at is their upcoming Eee Box, which will launch mid-July in the US. Running on a 1.6GHz Atom processor, it comes in Windows XP and Linux versions, both of which are blissfully cheap: $269 for the base 1GB RAM, 80GB storage Linux model, $299 for XP. Memory and storage are configurable, running from 512MB to 2GB, and 80GB to 250GB, respectively. 802.11n is standard, and it has a pleasant number of ports—serious potential as a TV streamer box (as commenters have pointed out, lack of optical drive and HDMI out is definitely limiting here). We didn't get to see it in action, but it's definitely a cute, well-built package for the money. All the dirty details below.

269?!!?
Well I'm sold. I'll pick up one with Linux. I would them to ship real linux, but getting Advance Mode wasn't a problem on the EEE PC laptop, so I'm sure it will be the same.

Very happy they went with DVI, since it will work with my ACD.

Over all a very impressive PC for 269(or 299 if you want XP for some unknown reason)

 

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I think a second hand mini would still be better value. What is the processing power of a 1.6GHz Atom compared to a 1.66GHz Core Duo?

Found a site. Its about 1/3rd the performance of a 1.83GHz C2D. http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-4412-view-Intel-silverthorne-atom-processor-benchmark.html

Good luck using it a TV streamer box for anything other than standard definition.