There’s nothing truly special about the Eee Keyboard beyond the fact that Asus did it first. Sure, it took some fancy configuring to get the PCBs, RAM and everything in there, but if you were a dedicated DIY computer guy, you could do something similar. And this guy did — no touchscreen, no wireless HDMI, and it’s not as fast, but hey, it’s a computer in a keyboard!
The creator is Russian and you can get the translated rundown here. From what I can understand, it appears that it’s still a work in progress; heat is a big problem and he’s having to work with different clock speeds to keep it stable. VGA out isn’t exactly state of the art, but it will put an image into a projector. It’s running at 900MHz right now on a Celeron, with a gig of RAM and a 20GB (?) SSD. Better than my keyboard computer.
[via Liliputing and Gizmodo]
[yawn] Commodore Vic=20, circa 1980.
Everyone can get a slimmer version of Keyboard PC with at least:
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor P8400
2GB memory
250GB hard drive
512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Blu-ray ROM drive
Optional Blu-ray +/-R/RW, 1GB discrete graphics, Integrated HDTV Tuner, Verizon mobile broadband ExpressCard V740
Wireless-N card
Integrated webcam, fingerprint reader, & microphone
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All you have to do is unscrew your monitor from your laptop or netbook and viola, you have a nice small, portable, quiet PC all under your fingertips. Add a Logitech Nano receiver Mouse and you’re done.
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Honestly, use one myself, incredible feeling.
n4ws.us july 2009
HI THERE WOW WHO MAKES THAT ONE BUT I HAVE SEE ONE WITH A INTEL DUO CORE CPU WITH EATHER 1 OR 2 GB OF RAM UP TOO 4 GB OPTIONAL WITH A WEAKER 8 GB SSD BUT WHAT THEY DID NOT SAY IS YOU CAN UPGRADE THE SSD CAPACITY LIKE UPGRADING THE HARD DRIVE YOU CAN MAX THIS THING OUT AT 2 GB OF RAM AND A 128 GB SOLID STATE FLASH DRIVE IF YOU WANT MORE CAPACITY AND STILL STAY WITH A SSD