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Asus Set To Release Desktop Eee PC Variant
the_leander writes "The Register has pictures of the desktop version of Asus's Eee PC, reportedly called the 'Ebox.' It will be released early next month after it has been unveiled publicly at Computex in Taipei on June 3. It'll come equipped with the same Xandros Linux distribution as the Eee, though it's likely that Windows XP will be available also. But given the probable choice for CPU, Atom, ithe Ebox is unlikely to allow for the use of Vista, unless you're something of a masochist. It's expected to retail for $200-$300."
A Mac Mini is not that much more in price, and is virtually immune to browser exploits and attacks from remote.
I agree.
I'm not defending Vista, im just perturbed by the "...the Ebox is unlikely to allow for the use of Vista, unless you're something of a masochist" remark, mostly because of the latter end of the sentence.
"...unlikely to allow..."
Does it have some sort of boot message? "A Vista Installation Has Been Detected, You Are Advised To Uninstall This Operating System And Return To The Operating System That Came With This Computer"
But im fine with that side, its worth noting that it may be incompetant in regards to running Vista, but its not designed to run Vista, so the masochistic remark is unwarranted unless it was advertised as having the requirements to do so, and then fails.
FTFA - "...but for now Asus is keeping the full spec to itself."
Perhaps when the details are listed in their entirety, and someone has personal experience with (or attempting to) run Vista on it, then you can call people masochists for further attempts.
FTFA - "Last month, Asus launched the Essentio CS5110 mini PC, is a multimedia SFF PC that again got Eee fans' hopes rising... until they saw that it runs Windows Vista."
So, it could be assumed, especially with 2GB's of memory, that it may indeed support (as far as performance specifications) Windows Vista.