Compact, stylish design, Low power consumption, Good Wi-Fi performance, Quick boot
Weak multimedia performance, Slow hard drive, No optical drive
When ASUS released the original Eee PC back in October 2007, the lilliputian laptop surprised the tech industry by spawning its own product category, the mini-notebook. Now, nearly a dozen Eee PC notebooks later comes the Eee Box, a diminuitive desktop...
Publicerad: 2008-08-13, Författare: Andrew , testad av: techworld.com
The Eee Box is a great value that's geared toward students, as well as home and small-office users. Even with its internal fan it’s practically silent and consumes little power, making it easy to recommend as the start of a budget or second PC system....
My time with the Eee Box was enjoyable, and the device is full of great ideas. Its the kind of thing Id recommend to less computer-literate family and friends, but the limitations of the Atom platform at present—specifically the underwhelming video...
Tiny. Quiet. Energy-efficient. "Express Gate" pre-Windows quick-boot mode. Windows XP Home (compatibility, software). Mountable on VESA monitor. Multithreaded processor.
Smallish hard drive. No 3D performance worth speaking of. Low benchmark test numbers. Some apps may be incompatible. 1GB of memory. No CD or DVD drive. Its Windows, so youre vulnerable to Windows malware and viruses.
The ASUS Eee Box PC is just what its billed to be: a tiny PC that runs Windows XP and is good for Web surfing and simple tasks....
In terms of its general performance profile, the Asus Eee Box delivered more than we expected for its size, power consumption and price tag. The machine provided a fluid experience in all but our full 1080p digital video playback test but held up to...
Synopsis: In some respects, when we think about what the capabilities of a $349 desktop system should be like, we cant help but be impressed what Asus has achieved and the overall value of the Eee Box. Whats more impressive though is the Eee Boxs...
Small, lightweight and cuter than bowl full of kittens. More than enough processing power for everyday computing. Cheaper than an ounce of Da Kine bud. The option of running Splashtop for preboot access to Skype, web browsing and IM clients.
Wheres the optical drive? No HDMI output, which actually doesnt matter much because theres also no hardware decode acceleration. By itself, the Atom processor can barely handle 720p H.264 streams, dashing our hopes of this being the ultimate home streamin...
