Remember that Eee Monitor from a while back? Well! It’s all growns up and it’s sporting a touchscreen and Windows XP. I have to say, though, as nice as it would be to have a little XP touchscreen around the house, the specs are a little lacking: 1GB of RAM, a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 160GB HDD, and 128GBMB (heh) of shared graphics. The 15.6-inch screen would be nice to run your fingers over, but I feel like compromises were made here that would limit the machine’s usability.
Still, a full-blown touchscreen XP box for just under $700, though it’s just pre-order at the moment, to be shipped next month. Lovely.
Update: Digitimes says the “Eee Top” will cost $450 and will come in 16″ and 19″ flavors. Uh, we’ll get back to you with more definite details whenever that happens.
“…the specs are a little lacking: 1GB of RAM, a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 160GB HDD, and 128GB of shared graphics.”
Thats a lot of shared graphics! ;-)
heh heh, awesome. It’s totally legit, one hundred twenty eight GIGGGGGA … BYYYYTES!
This would actually make for a pretty cool jukebox style PC. Mount it to a wall, run audio cables to a stereo receiver and party. It would keep everyone from crowding around the ‘puter all night and spilling beer on ones desk.
Now that’s a solid application. What’s great is that a year or two ago, something like that would have cost like $3000, so the idea didn’t even occur to me. We’re really getting into an interesting new era of ubiquitous computing.
It’s something I’d been considering for my apartment and looking into a small (15″ or less) touch screen, but with a machine like this it would be really easy to do. I’m always fairly worried about everyone being on my main (and currently only) computer when listening to music, I’d also like to at some point set up a machine with a virtual XP running on it so guests can surf far into the dangerous reaches of the internet without worrying about viruses or malware.