Asus Eee Top

Post by **Niknik** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:01 am

Interesting concept from Asus:

An all-in-1 PC with 15.6" LCD + touchscreen, using the same hardware as the Eee PCs.
For about 500 Eur. I wouldn't mind having 1 or 2 around the house.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/asus ... in-the-uk/

Post by **TANE** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:56 am

Sounds good..

Post by **Bwired** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:39 am

I need to buy a new computer for the family, this one looks good!
HP has also the Smart Touch, A bit more expensive and powerful, also more energy consuming.
Looks very good!
http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaig ... rt/#/Main/

Post by **Niknik** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:45 am

I played around with one of those HP the other day. It's rather good... but very expensive for me.

Post by **Snelvuur** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:24 pm

I just know my gf, she would push on it, and if it didn't work in like 200mili seconds, she would push again harder, then the thing would fall over, on the floor and get cracked..

// Erik (binkey.nl)

Post by **Niknik** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:25 pm

That's why you should mount it on a wall!

Post by **TANE** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:05 pm

I like to mount it IN the wall

Post by **Snelvuur** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:41 pm

its not ment to be mounted in the wall (i think) if you see wholes where it needs or vents air, i would not take it, simple because it would get to warm.. lifespan would be less and i dont intend to change the wall-pc/touchscreen every year

// Erik (binkey.nl)

Post by **RDNZL** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:09 pm

Look here: http://www.mycom.nl/SearchResults.aspx?q=eee+touch

Post by **Digit** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:13 pm

It's high on my wish list... available in 1 week, sooner than i had expected.

Post by **Digit** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:23 pm

@erik: you can get an optional wall mount for it.

Post by **Bastiaan** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:58 pm

FIrst impressions:
OK I bought the EEE top for my living room to serve as one of the HStouch screens.
Its quite nice for the money. The screen res is a bit low for the size and you get pretty big windows + Asus added a lot of extra software. Good for the kids but not for me.
Lucky everything uninstalls easy and you get a decent working XP machine.
The touch screen is a bit slow but works well for the bigger buttons I made in HStouch.
Screen updates, even from my camera screens are fine. It switches quickly to standby but also has a seperate screen on/off button.
I don't hear any ventilator or HD spinning, its completely quiet.
Overal a nice standalone touchscreen and yes you might hang it on a wall but the power plug sticks out of the back, maybe the wall mount has an adapter for it.
Bastiaan

Post by **kwadruppel** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 4:16 pm

(yay, 1st post

Does it have digital audio out? (intend to use as livingroom gui+audio player)
I couldn't find any 'formal' info confirming that for the eee tops.
Any clue about the chipset? (945GSE or 945GC?)

thx,
Sander.

[EDIT: site works better in IE [:p] : http://event.asus.com/eeetop/ ,
945GSE chipset (same as eeebox B202, so low power), 5.1 analog audio out by reusing (external-?)mic-in/line-in connectors. I wonder if the 'array mic' they mention would then still work for eg Skype. No explicit mention of the headphone-out doubling as optical spdif out (like it apparantly does in the B202)]

Post by **Chiel** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:17 pm

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by kwadruppel
 
945GSE chipset (same as eeebox B202, so low power)
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">The chipset is not really low-power, check http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Ato ... ,1997.html

Post by **kwadruppel** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:29 pm

ah yes, comparing to AMD you're right ofcourse. From this article
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article867-page1.html
i took it there was at least some progress (945GC->945GSE) in the absense of the
poulsbo chipset (although apparently that's no silver bullet either).

Nice Atom/Athlon comparison in the tomshardware article btw, makes you wonder.