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ASUS announces HD-capable Eee Box B208

by Parm Mann on 11 March 2009, 09:24

Tags: Eee Box B208, ASUSTeK (TPE:2357)

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ASUS caught our eye with a couple of interesting Eee-branded products at last week's CeBIT - namely the Eee Keyboard and 22in Eee Top.

One we must have missed, though, is the Eee Box B208. Pictured below, this familiar-looking nettop is the latest addition to the Eee Box range and houses a number of upgraded components.

Inside the 222mm x 178mm x 26.99mm system lies Intel's dual-core Atom 330 processor, 1GB of DDR2 memory, a choice of 160GB, 250GB or 320GB hard disks, and discrete graphics courtesy of ATI's 256MB Radeon HD 4350.

Thanks to the added graphics power, the Eee Box B208 sports HDMI connectivity, making this a tiny VESA-mountable system that could be an ideal living-room solution. The downside, we reckon, is ASUS' decision to ship the system with either Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Business - both of which don't feature Windows Media Centre, leaving users to toil with ASUS' Eee Cinema package, instead.

Still, it'll come bundled with a remote control, it's said to be very quiet in operation, and if the price is right, we'd quite fancy one.

Official product page: ASUS.com



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Does Asus sell those keyboards seperately in black?
that could be nice, swap the HDD out for a small 32GB SSD, whack windows 7 on there…..

Still might be noisey thou :(
Me wants…..
Love the idea - definitely be tempted if the price was right :)

My only concern is the power draw - doesn't a 4350 pull as much power on its own (about 20W, iirc) as the original Eee box!?!
The ATI cards carry sound through HDMI as well don't they? Think I'd be tempted to if the price is right, kit it out with Myth and a decent usb tv tuner :)