Asus has added Intel's desktop-oriented dual-core Atom chip, the 1.6GHz 330, to its Eee Box line of compact PCs - and given it Windows Vista to chew on.
Like the other members of the Eee Box family, the B208, still uses some mobile components - its 1GB of DDR 2 memory comes on a latop-oriented SO-Dimm, for instance. The machine …
I thought it would be great strapped to the back of my 2nd TV as a media player/streamer, I have UPS for everything else (including my Media PC - why? because otherwise power cuts send it into S5 and it won't wake to record things).
I also thought if it lost the Radeon for lower power it would probably make a good Debian server with the battery for UPS. Also a shame they only have the one wired ethernet port, or it would be a fantastic firewall platform.
Would be great to be able to get these in a variety of configurations... or with pluggable modules.
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Asus adds dual-core Atom to Eee desktop
Asus has added Intel's desktop-oriented dual-core Atom chip, the 1.6GHz 330, to its Eee Box line of compact PCs - and given it Windows Vista to chew on. Like the other members of the Eee Box family, the B208, still uses some mobile components - its 1GB of DDR 2 memory comes on a latop-oriented SO-Dimm, for instance. The machine …
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Posted Monday 9th March 2009 20:49 GMT
Joe K
Sigh #
Vista and an in-built UPS battery (!), what pointless expenses they add to this thing.
If there is a power cut how do you even shut it down when your TV monitor is dead too, duh.
I'll wait till the next version that comes without such pointlessness.
Posted Tuesday 10th March 2009 08:51 GMT
Anonymous Coward
@ Sigh #
See I thought differently...
I thought it would be great strapped to the back of my 2nd TV as a media player/streamer, I have UPS for everything else (including my Media PC - why? because otherwise power cuts send it into S5 and it won't wake to record things).
I also thought if it lost the Radeon for lower power it would probably make a good Debian server with the battery for UPS. Also a shame they only have the one wired ethernet port, or it would be a fantastic firewall platform.
Would be great to be able to get these in a variety of configurations... or with pluggable modules.
This topic is closed for new posts.