News - ASUS Eee Keyboard busted open

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[nichomach]

I can REALLY see this working in a minimalist reception setting, for instance.

[Gunbuster]

All I want is a usb Windows chicklet keyboard

[Arthran]

Price dependent these could be great for allot of companies, could use them as "terminal's", run a basic locked down XP installation with Terminal Services doing most of the work.

[Funkstar]

I can imagine call centers and the like using these things. The power, space and administration savings could be significant over other solutions.

[TheAnimus]

I would of thought anyone who had to use it for anything remotely complex would suffer all kinds of strains, from eyes to fingers trying to use the tiny screen.

Anyone know how good the seals are on this? It might be perfect for the kitchen for recipies, music etc.

[DoubleTop]

it does like a nice device, and totally agree that all those call centres that are still using the old hp p4's should take a look at some of this type of stuff.

I'm still a regular user of my eee-pc first revision for that very reason, I can surf the web and use a meagre amount of power to do so.

DT.

[Funkstar]

That 5" screen isn't the only output though, right?

I always assumed that was just a secondary output, so you had a main monitor as well as this little fully customisable touch pad.

Or am I wrong?

[nichomach]

Apparently it has an HDMI out, so mate that up with a TFT with integrated speakers that supports HDMI and you're laughing. You could use an HDMI > DVI adapter, but given that HDMI supports audio...

[Arthran]

looking on the back of pic 2 in the article you can see a standard vga connector, making these almost the perfect thin client machines

[Funkstar]

Thats what I thought.

[scaryjim]

... the perfect thin client machines

Isn't a 1.6GHz processor and 1GB RAM a bit.. well... fat for a thin client?

[Funkstar]

But it is much "thinner" (in the physical sense) than any other thin client