News - ASUS announces HD-capable Eee Box B208

[HEXUS]

Dual-core Atom and discrete Radeon HD 4000-series graphics. Is this the perfect low-cost TV accompaniment?

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[Gunbuster]

Does Asus sell those keyboards seperately in black?

[TheAnimus]

that could be nice, swap the HDD out for a small 32GB SSD, whack windows 7 on there.....

Still might be noisey thou

[Methanoid]

Me wants.....

[scaryjim]

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!?!

[Zadock]

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

[Biscuit]

They should sell all the eee products in black, silver and white... or do they already?

[scaryjim]

They should sell all the eee products in black, silver and white... or do they already?

I don't know if they do or not, but you're spot on!

[amdavies]

With this and Ion coming soon, low power consumption HD media centers are looking much more cost effective.

[Biscuit]

indeed, its making me glad i waited out on the netbook explosion

[scaryjim]

indeed, its making me glad i waited out on the netbook explosion

I'm still hpoing that genuine netbooks will drop in price when Yukon notebooks appear...

[Pikachu]

How did they put a discrete graphics card in? I thought it wasn't possible for Mini-ITX??

[Biscuit]

Why would it not be possible? Mini ITX as a form factor is essentially the same as ATX but smaller so aslong as they have the PCI-E bus present on the board the only other workarounds are the the size of the card and making sure it doesnt interfere with the other IO ports (which is easily done if your building a system which isnt meant to be modified such as this) and power distribution (as graphics cards tend to require more power than an onboard solution).

Edit - check out the Zotac 775 and AM2 boards which have a PCI-E x16 socket on

[Pikachu]

If the can add premium sound card slot/integrated that would become the ultimate media PC.

[gagaga]

How did they put a discrete graphics card in? I thought it wasn't possible for Mini-ITX??

It's got a discrete chip, not a discrete card. It'll be integrated into the main motherbaord in the same was as in a laptop ... the motherboard will be unique for this PC as there is no need to it to be any particular standard to fit third party cases.


Now all we need is XBMC to have H264 acceleration for ATI added ...

[Methanoid]

It's got a discrete chip, not a discrete card. It'll be integrated into the main motherbaord in the same was as in a laptop ... the motherboard will be unique for this PC as there is no need to it to be any particular standard to fit third party cases.


Now all we need is XBMC to have H264 acceleration for ATI added ...

What does have acceleration enabled? PowerDVD, WinDVD, MediaPortal?