ASUS EeeBox

[Tom Metro]

Looks like ASUS has followed up its Eee PC small laptop with a small, 
low-power desktop machine:

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/SkuSearch_v2.asp?SCriteria=BA25422

Currently selling for $340 with no display. It's powered by a 1.6 GHz 
Intel Atom n270 with 1 GB RAM, 80 GB hdd, 802.11b/g/n wireless (and Gb 
LAN), and is loaded with Windows XP home. They claim it uses only 20W of 
power and makes 26dB of noise. Small enough that you can bolt it to the 
back of an LCD.

The CPU is probably too weak to make a good MythTV front-end (at least 
not for HD), but it should make a nice low-powered micro server in a 
year or two when the price drops into the $200 range. It has a built-in 
memory card reader, so you could ditch the mechanical hard drive for a 
memory card.

  -Tom

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