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."

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MS probably won't sell XP on the thing

[Rob Y.]

Remember that the new extended life XP is for a very limited set of hardware. Screens = 10". That alone would probably make any desktop system (with an external monitor) ineligible for an XP license.

It'll probably run Vista, but that'd require a lot more RAM than the Linux version. How will they get away with making Linux more expensive than Vista on this thing? Who knows, but presumably MS will try to force them to.