Asus Launches Touchscreen Eee Desktop

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @08:08AM 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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Do they even know about quality around there? by sethstorm · 2008-10-14 09:56 · Score: 0, Troll

One consistent thing with Asus seems that they don't seem to do quality (EEE or not, a lot of their stuff looks cheaply constructed/designed). I'm not talking about quality that the Far East may be used to, but the quality that this side of the world had.
Is too much to ask to attempt a model without those knockoff/cut-rate components(and not use an ODM)?

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