Asus Eee Keyboard Coming May/June

[WC Annihilus]

"Previously simply a design concept, Asus's innovative keyboard PC will soon be on its way to market."

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[Diablo]

This isn't exactly ideal for a media pc, the drive isn't big enough for storing movies on, it has no disc drive and the processor hasn't got the juice to decode blurays. Nice concept, but I'm struggling to see much marketability.

 

[Hyper]

I can install as much memory in my Nokia 5800 and the screen looks about as big.

 

[nathan]

I can install as much memory in my Nokia 5800 and the screen looks about as big.

I think the screen is more for controlling, not viewing and the biggest card that works with the 5800 is 16GB.

 

[llwyd]

I quite like that actually. A NAS drive and a big-ass screen in the living room and youre sorted

 

[Bondi007]

Does it have the juice and graphics power to decode blu-ray?

- Bondi

 

[nathan]

Does it have the juice and graphics power to decode blu-ray?

- Bondi

i doubt it, i'm guessing there still using the poo intel chipset.

 

[Bondi007]

I think it's probably an Atom on a pico-atx motherboard lol

- Bondi

 

[nathan]

I think it's probably an Atom on a pico-atx motherboard lol

- Bondi

the atom is can do bluray, look at the nividia ion.

 

[zak4994]

the atom is can do bluray, look at the nividia ion.

But the Ion also has a nVidia 9400GS/GT inside.

Back on topic, I don't see many sales for this.

 

[nathan]

But the Ion also has a nVidia 9400GS/GT inside.

Back on topic, I don't see many sales for this.

i know, but it still has an atom in it.

 

[Diablo]

I thought it would be pretty cool to have a computer that you could work on from anywhere, but then I remembered that laptops already exist, and they have an integrated screen.

The atom isn't the main decoding element of the ion's bluray capability, most of the work is offloaded to the gpu.

 

[nathan]

I thought it would be pretty cool to have a computer that you could work on from anywhere, but then I remembered that laptops already exist, and they have an integrated screen.

The atom isn't the main decoding element of the ion's bluray capability, most of the work is offloaded to the gpu.

i never said it was, i was just mentioning that a pc with an atom as a cpu can still decode bluray. Meaning, depending on the chipset/gfx on this eee keyboard, it could infact decode bluray.

 

[zak4994]

i never said it was, i was just mentioning that a pc with an atom as a cpu can still decode bluray. Meaning, depending on the chipset/gfx on this eee keyboard, it could infact decode bluray.

That is still true.

Regardless of integrated GPU.

 

[Bondi007]

I don't think its very realistic and won't grab much attention of the media whores, it won't never beat the system below your TV.

- Bondi