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Asus Launches Touchscreen Eee Desktop

Posted by kdawson on from the smearing-the-peanut-butter-and-jelly dept.

Barence writes "Asus has launched an Eee-branded 15.6" touchscreen desktop PC as a budget rival to HP's TouchSmart. Available for pre-order now on Play.com for £399.99 ($749), it shares much of the same specification as the Eee PC, but with a larger 160GB hard disk. Interestingly, it's listed as coming with XP installed, so we'd guess Asus will be using some sort of proprietary touchscreen interface — yet the image on the site clearly shows Linux on the screen, which may be a better bet for an easy-to-use touch system."

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  1. One thing I've always wondered... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How the hell do you pronounce the durn thing? I've always been calling it the "Triple-E", but saying "an Triple-E" isn't proper English. So what is it? E e e? A drawn-out e? Something else?

  2. Touch Screen interface by Widowwolf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Interestingly, it's listed as coming with XP installed, so we'd guess Asus will be using some sort of proprietary touchscreen interface -- yet the image on the site clearly shows Linux on the screen, which may be a better bet for an easy-to-use touch system" Honest question, not flaming: Ok, so if its a proprietary touchscreen interface, why would it be so much easier on Linux then XP

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  3. This is pretty close. by dbc001 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is pretty close to the one thing that my home network is missing.

    I'd love to have a little wall-mountable computer that could play videos, mp3s, and interact with my network.

    No need for a fast cpu - i'm not going to do any work standing there; or play any games. But with a webcam and Skype or IM, it would make a great phone replacement. Maybe a photo screensaver that pulls from a network folder or flickr account.

    Basically what I'm looking for is a larger (and faster) version of the Nokia n800. I'll definitely buy one when they get the size and price right.

  4. Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    [Linux] may be a better bet for an easy-to-use touch system.

    care to back this up or is it just more fanboi fud?

  5. Re:um by entgod · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Companies actually can an do customize their windows setups. Too bad they usually abuse that ability and just load them up with crapware.

  6. Re:Touch Screen: Single Touch Panel by oakgrove · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I'm not sure what problem anyone else on here is having with their touch screens and Linux but the 7" touch screen Xenarc LCD attached to the PC in my car works perfectly with Ubuntu 8.04. The drivers and calibration software is an easy download from their site and a shell script away to install. I can't imagine it being easier or working better on Windows.

    Of course, I am a bit selective in the hardware I buy. I love using Linux on my computers and wouldn't use anything else so I am willing to do the little bit of research necessary to purchase hardware that works with it as opposed to getting whatever is the cheapest on newegg and hoping that I won't have any problems.

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