• Asus Eee Box (B202)

    Asus Eee Box (B202)

    Roydon Cerejo, Nov 17, 2008 1336 hrs IST

    The era of Nettops is here and Asus is first in line with the Eee Box.

    Ultra compact form factor, Consumes just 20W on full load, WLAN 802.11 b/g/n, Bundled keyboard and mouse, Silent operation.

    No optical drive.

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With laptops, cellphones and other technology gadgets getting smaller by the day, it was only a matter of time before our faithful desktop got a complete makeover. Not that we don't have small form factor PC's or Barebones, as they are commonly known already, I'm talking about something a lot more compact and low on power consumption too.

This is where Asus's latest venture into small form factor PC comes in with the recently launched Eee Box. After the huge success of their Eee PC Notebooks, the desktop was their next obvious target. Built for SOHO segments or perhaps a computer for everyday tasks like managing your photos, surfing the net, e-mailing or even working on MS Office, the Eee Box seems like the perfect tool for it.

Also, Asus is shipping the Eee Box along with a keyboard and a mouse so all you will need to purchase separately is the display (even better if you have a spare port on your LCD).

First let's start off by examining the specifications of the Eee Box.

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Looks familiar? That's because it's exactly the same as the Eee PC 1000H. As of now there's just one model available (B202), but I'm sure in time higher powered models will surface. The Eee Box is built around Intel's Atom N270 running at 1.6GHz. The total memory available is 1GB DDR2, which actually is two 512MB modules running in single channel mode.

Since there are just two slots, it would have made better sense to install a single 1GB stick and leave one slot vacant. Nevertheless, 1GB should be more than enough for this configuration.

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bigdic
,new york, usa, on Feb 07, 2009 12:55 PM
great review!!
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sandeep
,chennai, on Nov 17, 2008 10:14 PM
you've left out a few details: The linux version comes with 2 GB RAM and a 160 GB hard disk. who needs windows....
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Sohan
,Pune, on Dec 04, 2008 04:01 PM
Yes, true that.
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Sneyden
,mumbai, on Nov 18, 2008 03:39 PM
It seems to be a good pc xcept for the fact that it has no cd drive..... The review also seems to be good as it has given all the pros n cons of d device......
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rajesh
,Vizag, on Nov 17, 2008 05:15 PM
A very good concept. This is great for the masses.
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