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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/

Sounds good..

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/

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

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)

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

I like to mount it IN the wall

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)

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

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

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

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

(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)]

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

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.