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."

Comments

Re:Looks cool

[Doppler00]

And why would you need a floppy drive in the year 2008? Looking at the pictures, it looks like that would consume over 50% of it's volume. I would be surprised if it even had a DVD-ROM drive.

But for that price

[Anonimouse]

i can buy a far more powerful machine second hand. I can see the rationale for a low priced hand held size device as that niche didn't exist before. But a desktop? Especially when everyone is moving towards laptops...

Re:It's just getting old

[mgblst]

WTF? I am guessing that most people got bored of your post, but I actually read the last part. So you are saying you can see no progress on the front against Microsoft? You are suggesting that Linux has made no progress in the last few years, when clearly it has made a lot. Ubuntu is a huge crowd pleaser, being taken up by more and more people, business are considering Linux even more, as proved by the stories on companies moving over to Linux solution, Linux is on more and more gadgets all the time, .... what more do you want?

Re:It's just getting old

[pdusen]

Wow, way to take a quarter of a sentence in the last paragraph and blow it up, completely ignoring the poster's actual point entirely. That must be convenient for argument.

Re:Redundant department of redundancy...

[digitig]

For the record, I use Debian and for an EEE PC I would recommend to consumers to use the Linux version. For the record, I use Windows XP (never managed to get a Linux installation to completely work on my desktop PC -- somebody here was helping me to get Ubuntu working, but I had technical problems and then got distracted by actually using the computer) but I have the Linux version of the eeePC. It's great for the built in apps, but I can't properly install my own (even in the advanced (KDE) desktop, icons that I add don't persist through a reboot).