News - ASUS Eee Box EB1012 touts high-def functionality

[HEXUS]

ASUS looks set to introduce a refreshed Eee Box, equipped with a dual-core Atom CPU and NVIDIA's ION chipset.

Read more.

[3dcandy]

This could be just what I'm looking for..if the price is right of course!!!

[Merson]

They had the older version on the Gadget Show last night and it didn't fare too well at all.

Written
http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/gadge...ack-of-the-net

Video
http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/video...n-test-nettops

[Biscuit]

This could be just what I'm looking for..if the price is right of course!!!

+1 if its a good price point thats me sold!

[danroyle]

i saw it on the gadget show also.

looks like if you are after one of these the acer aspire revo kicked this one into touch and was priced cheaper at £244ish

[Crazywhores]

The Asrock NetTop ION 330 can be had for around £225 if you wait for scan todayonly deals. Also, the BlueRay version can be had for around £290 if you shop around.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Asroc...320GB-HDD-HDMI

This system is a little larger, but does have a built in optical drive. Only problem I see is no front usb ports

[kingpotnoodle]

If I didn't already have a media PC I'd be seriously tempted by one of these because they are such neat packages... hide it away and all you have to see is the USB optical drive, which can be quite stylish...

The big BUT is though that for similar money it is possible to put together a full PC... mine can be replicated for <£350 (even less if you got cheaper case) including Blu-Ray drive... yes it's big (Antec Fusion) but a proper dual core desktop CPU is much faster, and at 65W idle for the whole machine it's not that expensive to run... and you get 500GB storage, very similar NVidia chipset, room inside for a TV tuner etc...

[cjs150]

3 big issues for me before I would splash out (and no price is not one of them) and buy:

1. Must have blue ray player built in
2. Noise - must be effectively silent from 3ft (1 metre) away)
3. 8 channel LPCM so it can plug into my AV receiver.

Current models tend to fail 2 and 3 (3 is apparantly very flaky) and Eee box fails no 1 as well.

So I need a lot of convincing - I could be build a better version myself (no 3 is a motherboard issue) that could pass no 1 and 2 but I could not make it as pretty as the Eee box

[TheAnimus]

I'd agree with cjs, how loud are these things!

[Methanoid]

The Asrock NetTop ION 330 can be had for around £225 if you wait for scan todayonly deals. Also, the BlueRay version can be had for around £290 if you shop around.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Asroc...320GB-HDD-HDMI

This system is a little larger, but does have a built in optical drive. Only problem I see is no front usb ports

Asrock FTW... miles better IMHo. Happy with mine!