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Asus Announces Eee Top All-In-One, Meant to Compete With iMacs

Posted 11/21/08 at 03:19:27 PM  by Andy Salisbury

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Just this week Asus announced their brand new Eee Top desktop computer, which is meant to directly complete with Apple’s juggernaut, the iMac.

The Eee Top is a fancy take on desktop computing, that features a 15.6-inch touch screen, 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB DDR RAM, a 160GB 5,400RPM hard drive (boo!), a 1.3-megapixel webcam, and built-in WiFi. The price point is set at about $580 USD, but sadly the machine is only available in Taiwan. The rest of us will have to wait!

Though, the wait will be worthwhile, because if 15.6 inches sounds like it’ll be to small for you, Asus has a 20 and 22-inch version slated for release in June.

 

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TAGS: apple, asus, hardware, consumer electronics, eee PC, iMac, eee top
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avatarIs this thing out yet...when

Submitted by t3e871 on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 10:38am

Is this thing out yet...when will newegg have it?

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avatarI'm thinking this will make

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 9:45pm

I'm thinking this will make a nice kitchen PC. You can (more likely you gal can) look up and follow recipes, make shopping lists, browse porn while making dinner, do a little budgeting in the kitchen. The touchscreen and it's small foot print is what I like about it. If you stay within it's limitations and accept those limitations there is plenty to be enjoyed and I would definately put linux on this machine. That processor is just too slow for even WinXP.

Your wife can listen to audio books while she does the dishes and look at pictures of you while she does the dishes and listen to your voice recorded on the PC while she does the dishes.  

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avatarNearly $600

Submitted by Bender2000 on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 9:27pm

The specs underwhelm, even compared to $300 PCs and your leftover Athlon X2 box. My biggist concern is the OS, will it be LINUX or XP Home? Do you really think Windows 7 will run on this?

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avatarCut the price down to about

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 4:27pm

Cut the price down to about $300dollars and I'd get one. It's just not worth the price.

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