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Eee Monitor is in the works
Author: Richard SwinburnePublished: 3rd July 2008
The Eee PC monitor is expected to retail for around $500
If there wasn't enough Eee launches and sub-notebook mania occuring lately, get ready for some more.
If our Chinese translation is correct, it might have DVI and VGA inputs, but the emailer wasn't sure - saying that it all depended on Asus' choice of selling it "as a monitor first, with a PC second".
The Eee PC-esque internals - we are assuming something Atom based, but the email doesn't specify this - provide an RJ45 Ethernet, RJ11 modem, webcam, four USB 2.0 ports (in the back, six in total), microphone, line-in and stereo speaker output but Denon quality speakers included in the monitor itself.
From the looks at least it is widescreen and a decent size, although there was no indication yet of what sizes will be available.
What we do know is that it will be available in both white and black, and is quoted as retailing for $500. Let us know if you'd be interested in it by hopping into the forums.
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WTF is that for? I know what it's for I just want to know what it's doing on there...
Unless it's for an optional telephone attachment, so you can use the Thing as an IPphone terminal.
My guess is it's nothing more exciting than a modem connection. I guess some people still use dial-up, for some strange reason only known to them.
They can't find the broadband train. Too busy waiting for google to load, y'see.
I agree with the Fisher Price sentiment.. Seriously, 'My first computer' is being screamed by that, er, thing.
Yeah, good thinking, just a PC for general web browsing or watching videos/listening to music.
A touch screen would make it perfect for this though..
Since some smart-ass shoe-horned a touch screen into the laptop, I'd be very surprised if one wasn't shoe-horned in here either by Asus or a third party.
Seriously, it's functional and cheap enough to mod to within an inch of its life. You could put it in a nice oak picture frame. You could mount it behind a one-way mirror. You could drop it in a coffee table. You could build one in the bottom of a breakfast tray: have breakfast in bed and surf the net. The possibilities are endless.
I'm lazy :p I have one mod a month in me >.>
I'd be more interested if it gave me multi-touch control for RTS games, though.
there are many places where you can't braodband (unless you want to pay out the nose)
my parents for instance, have dial up, becaseu they live far enough out in the boonies, that it would cost $1200 just to get a cable line run out there.....and satellite is just crazy expensive, for how little they use the internet.
Asus is not trying to sell this to hardcore gamers, or even thinking it could be fast or powerful.
it is cheap, simple, and inexpensive. perfect for retired, fixed income people, or casual web surfers. people that it would be a waste to spend the money on even DSL.
you don't have to use the dial-up, but it is nice to have the option (i mean really, it probably added...what? a buck to the total price?)
I installed, more soldering than installing, one onto my eeePC to allow voip (it's a Conexant 56K RD02-D110 if anyone is interested).
But I never found a combination that allowed me to play WOW at the quality I wanted it at
SO I will buy one if it plays WOW at Mid or Higher video settings.
EEE is the new i
But it'd need to be touch screen for me to buy it
Oh, and touchscreen = win. No touchscreen = I'll settle for a laptop ;)