p2pnet - rss feed: The Asus Ebox cometh
p2pnet news | Products:- Arriving like a new-born to the ASUSTeK family by courier stork will be the EBOX, says The Inquirer.
Date of delivery? June 3, it says.
The Register states the, “rather Wii-style Eee will incorporate a 2GB of memory and a 160GB hard drive, we hear, but for now Asus is keeping the full spec to itself”.
However, nothing loathe, it suggests the new Asus will use a ‘Diamondville’ chip, “the small form-factor desktop-oriented processor Intel is set to add to its Atom family next month,” and will, “certainly run the Eee PC’s Xandros version of Linux, and come bundled with the same line-up of applications”
Last month, “Asus launched the Essentio CS5110 mini PC,” a multimedia SFF PC that, “again got Eee fans’ hopes rising —- until they saw that it runs Windows Vista,” adds The Register.
Neither post mentions cost but, “The company has previously mentioned that it plans to price the computer between $200 and $300,” says Electromnista.
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The Inquirer - Asus Ebox ready for launch, May 24, 2008
The Register - ISP data deal with former ’spyware’ boss triggers privacy fears, May 23, 2008
Electronista - Eee desktop titled EBOX, given June intro, , May 25, 2008
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May 27th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
about time.
PCs these days are about ten times bigger than needed.
But I hope smaller doesn’t mean over heating issues like the ones found in the Video Console industry
May 27th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
The above poster is a fudgin idgit.
May 27th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Desktops may be too big for you, but once you get past onboard video/audio and Pentiums, the incredible amount of heat energy being dissipated kinda needs a big case (to fill with noisy fans, of corse), unless you can afford a water cooling kit.
This may have 1/2 of the power of desktops, tops. There is a reason laptops haven’t taken over.
May 28th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I don’t care if my desktop PC is contained in a large case. I have a large desk, but am considering installing it underneath. It’s far better than the antique ones that needed a whole room and which only had a fraction of the power and ability. I don’t care about costlier plasma flatscreens either, as what would I do with the extra space behind the (large width) monitor? I like mine, if nothing else, because none of my friends have one anymore. XP is good enough for me, and I won’t be upgrading to Vista or beyond perhaps. Usually it is running full time and although getting old, I have no real problems with it. Fans are a bit noisy but I go right through Summer without overheating or dust problems, although houses are dusty.
One good thing about XP is that whenever a system file screwup occurs, rebooting seems to fix it, but all the ones I don’t like can be deleted. I also use a firewall of course, so I never let it call home. This is now its home. Once it did though, and I had to re-activate by phone before I could use Windows, which is crazy, but only happened once. My OS is legal and paid for so I don’t worry.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Personally, I’m really looking forward to this platform.
The reason being is because I’m a network administrator, and have use for these kinds of SFF PCs as cluster nodes. With the low cost, footprint, and low energy needed to power these, I could fit 10 of them (easily) into the space that two tower cased servers take up on my rack currently.
Now, granted, I’d like to see these designs shrink even moreso, but heat will always be a problem, unless you have access to a testing-tank filled with chilled Florinert (3M electronics testing solution; non-ionizing liquid used for testing electrical components for heat stress within a liquid-emersed environment). Unfortunately, the one article that I read about someone using Florinert was inconclusive about long term use… primarily because the technician decided that it’d be a good idea to use liquid nitrogen as the coolant, which caused the florinert to drop to a gel-like state which in turn caused the circulator pump they used to clog up and burn out. But, I think that if one used a more suitable coolant, it would probably work just fine so long as the emersion tank was sealed against contaminants.
that said… My real hope for the Ebox is that it’ll boot to a USB DVDRW so that I can put my own choice of Linux on it, and at the same time, I hope that the processor & chipset are widely supported by other Linux’s, such as Kubuntu.
Now… a comment about Vista. It’s a good OS. Don’t believe the negative hype. but at the same time, keep in mind that like WinME, Vista is a step toward MS’s next platform, much like Windows 2000 was a stepping stone toward Windows XP. Fortunately for MS, Win2K was much better received. The real problem at hand is that a new OS was not necessarily needed. XP has become very entrenched, and like Win98, it has been received well by the public. But then again, I knew people who refused to upgrade from MS-DOS to Windows 95, basically for the same reasons as those refusing to upgrade from XP to Vista. In their opinion, they have all that they need to run their PC. I guess it really depends on how ambitious one is. Personally, I evaluate Operating System releases to stay ahead of the curve as far as my tech clients go, but also because I’m really into OS software. Every new Linux distribution that is released ends up installed on something around here, even if it’s just into a VM-ware server instance to virtualize it (which, by the way, is a great way to test OS’s before actually installing them on to a PC). I keep 2 XP boxes here to handle software that won’t run on Vista, but that’s a very few apps now since most vendors have updated their code for Vista compatibility. If you have Vista, and you don’t like it’s default configuration, download a copy of ‘TweakVI’, turn off UAC, and tweak Vista the way you want it to work. I, personally, really like the processor cache tweaks, as well as the tweak that allows Vista to run completely from memory which allows the PC to function more like an appliance (very fast; totally real-time on sufficient hardware).
I guess some people don’t need the most powerful computers and Operating Systems they can get their hands on, but I do. It’s my job, and not to mention, I enjoy that sorta thing.