The Intel Atom CPU is a low power processor that’s excellent for netbooks since it helps prolong battery life while providing decent performance. But while power saving capabilities are nice in a desktop, they’re often not as crucial for a computer that spends all day plugged into a wall. With that in mind, it looks […]
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Eee Box nettop for $270 – One day sale
If you’re looking for a good deal on a cheap, low profile desktop computer, or nettop, J&R is selling the Eee Box for $270, today only (Amazon affiliate link). The Eee Box has a list price of $350, and typically sells for between $290 and $320. Like your typical Eee PC netbook, the Eee Box […]
Acer could launch a nettop next year
 I’ve never been quite as impressed with the idea of nettops as netbooks. While I value small size, light weight, and power saving features that provide extra battery life in a laptop, those features don’t matter as much to me in a desktop. But if you’ve got a small office space, or want to […]
Asus to launch Eee branded motherboard
One of these days Asus is going to change its name to Eee. Until then, the company just keeps pumping out new products with the Eee PC name. This week the Eee Top all-in-one desktop computer made its first retail appearance at Clove Technology, where it’s available for pre-order. And now DigiTimes reports that Asus […]
Another Asus update: Eee Box Virus, Eee PC S101 price, etc
OK, I’ll admit it. I’m a bit overwhelmed by the amount of news coming out of Asus today. Rather than write a dozen separate posts, I’ve decided to do a few highlights posts. In part one, we noted that Asus expects to ship 12 million notebooks next year, began bundling a 30GB USB hard drive […]
Eee Box coming to America next month
Laptop Magazine is confirming that the Asus Eee Box is headed to the US. The Eee Box is the first desktop PC in the Eee PC lineup. It’s basically a tiny computer with no optical drive, an 80GB hard drive, a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a $349 price tag. In other […]
Asus Eee Box priced at ÂŁ199
Asus has announced the official pricing for the Eee Box, the first desktop computer in the Eee PC lineup. The Eee Box B202 will cost ÂŁ199 in the UK, which is about $393 US. At that price, the tiny computer is cheaper than the original Eee PC 701 laptop, and significantly cheaper than the newer […]
Some new members of the "Eee Family"
Leave it up to LAPTOP Magazine to pull out all the stops and help ASUS with its next line of Eee PC products. Ok, we don’t really want a lot of these gadgets to start appearing in the Eee family but the brilliant and beautiful folks over at Laptopmag.com came up with some pretty clever […]
Asus Eee Box specs revealed
It looks like Hot Hardware got their hands on the official specs for the Eee PC-branded desktop. The Eee Box B202 shares many features with the upcoming Eee PC 901 laptop, like 802.11n and Bluetooth, but the Eee Box comes in desktop form, which allows the company to give the computer more storage space and […]
Asus Eee Box gets dissected
Asus is preparing to ship the desktop version of the Eee PC in July. AnandTech got a chance to check out a prototype Eee Box (formerly rumored to be known as the EBOX), and like any good tech site, one of the first things they did was dissect the unit and take a look at […]