ASUS EeeKeyboard $599

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Amazon has the new ASUS EeeKeyboard for $599 with free shipping.

An all-in-one PC stuffed into a full sized keyboard that will make all your friends with HTPC setups jealous..:cool:
 
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Way overpriced. The 20" Asus all in one with a 9400m, burner, Win7 HP, 2x more memory, 20x more disc space, wireless keyboard/mouse, a dual core Atom *and a 20" LCD!!!!!* is cheaper at Amazon.

IMO the 16GB SSD in the eee Keyboard is very limiting and expensive to upgrade.
 
What's the point of having this again? Why not just get a regular HTPC and a wireless keyboard-touchpad combo?
 
Looks like you just need the keyboard and whatever TV room you take it to, you have a computer. So as in my house, I have 3 TVs but only 1 HTPC at the moment. With this I would be able to have a HTPC in every TV room, but I suppose only 1 at a time? Not sure if you could stream to 1 TV and then move to the next room and start streaming to a new TV. Not sure what powers this thing though. Most laptops dont last more than a few hours playing a DVD or other media, so not sure what this can do. Very cool concept though for sure. Would like to know how the wireless streaming works too. Sounds like its Ultra Wide Band transmitter is better than standard N wireless for streaming HD over the air.
 
I think this thing is cool as hell. But I can't imagine Asus getting their money back out of this thing. I'd imaging there's only going to be a very select crowd who would shell out that kind of $ for it.
 
Really isn't that overpriced for what is included. Its basically a netbook with some accessories to connect to TVs. If they stuffed a dual core into it and 1gb of ram and had win7 running on it for the same cost, I think they would have a very nice unit and sell a bunch. I could see myself picking one up if the streaming worked great. Perfect bedroom unit with the added flexibility of connecting to any TV in the house. Wonder if you can pause your movie and move to the next room and continue playback from the same spot. Like if I start in the living room and then want to finish in bed.

As with most netbooks it looks painfully slow though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r-y3HeNle0

Asus GUI seems much faster than the xp OS though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hX6kgSLo_I&feature=watch_response
 
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If the price looked like $399, I might think of considering it..
 
Hate to say it, but apple needs to make one and give us a better battery life. If they dropped windows and only used their own OS which already works, I think this would be a great success. Could easily drop the price $100 without windows also.
 
Could easily drop the price $100 without windows also.
Geez, OEMs pay around $15 to put XP Home on lame configuration Atom SFF systems and netbooks (1GB memory, 10.1" displays and under, etc... this device fulfills those requirements). That is not even recent news.

MYTH BUSTED like a really long time ago.
 
They may pay that, doesn't mean they pass that to the consumer. Now I remember that to get that xp, it has to only have 1gb of ram. So throw on win7 and 2gb and 330 for this price and I would probably be a bit more inclined to buy one, if it had more than 4 hour battery life. That would barely last 2 movies.
 
why would someone buy a keyboard for $599 when someone can buy a netbook for $180 :D
 
Hate to say it, but apple needs to make one and give us a better battery life. If they dropped windows and only used their own OS which already works, I think this would be a great success. Could easily drop the price $100 without windows also.

You'd pay twice this for an Apple logo.
 
Except the ipad can't connect to anything at all without a $$$$$ adapter from apple.

I know it would cost twice for an apple. I was joking about the bad battery life and how apple can always manage to make sub par components last forever.
 
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