Eee Box goes high-def with HDMI and swankier video chip

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]

[#1 posted by zuzu , December 3, 2008 1:38 PM]

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.)

[#2 posted by bmjames , December 4, 2008 1:10 AM]

"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 :)

[#3 posted by mindpimp , December 4, 2008 3:57 AM]

Does this take up its one PCI slot, or did they have the boards reworked?

[#4 posted by erikeric , January 17, 2009 1:01 PM]

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?