Asus’s Eee Box, a desktop counterpart to its miniature subnotebooks, just got a spec bump. Moreover, the thing it added was, for once, meaningful: a discrete video card, with 256MB of RAM and a HDMI port. This means the little Wii-like slab can serve HDTV much better from underneath the set.
It also gets WiFi-n and a bigger hard drive, but otherwise retains the old loadout of 1GB of RAM with a 1.6 GHz Atom processor.
Press Release [Asus]
“It also gets WiFi-n”
Did it not already have WiFi-n?
My first-gen Eee Box is doing just fine, on my N-only wireless network
What was really insightful on the part of Asus is that the Eee Box 204 includes a built-in UPS!
(Also note that the 204 has better hardware than the 206, even though the previous model was the 202.)
Does this take up its one PCI slot, or did they have the boards reworked?
Where in the world did you even get a 1st-gen Eee box? I can’t find them on sale at Newegg, Pricegrabber or Dynamism. When are these new models out?