A couple of weeks ago we reported on the upcoming Asus Eee Box EB1501. Well, the official manual for this powerful nettop from Asus is now up at the Asus global site. And you can pre-order the Eee Box EB1501 at Amazon UK as well. Yes, right now.
The Eee Box EB1501 User Manual is available in several languages including Chinese, English, Dutch, Finish, French, German, Italian, Hungarian, Spanish and Thai. So if you are anywhere in those countries, expect the EB1501 to hit the local market soon.
Better yet, order your EB1501 unit now at Amazon and prepare to spend around £381.10.
With that price, you’d get a nettop with dual core 1.6GHz Atom 330 CPU, NVIDIA IO graphics, slot loading DVD burner plus some other goodies.
The folks at Netbooknews.de attended Microsoft’s Windows 7 shindig in Taipei, Taiwan and were kind enough to have taken videos of various netbooks running Windows 7. It’s a pretty good watch to give you an idea of how each of these netbooks which you might probably thinking to purchase, fare with Windows 7.
The netbooks show in the video are the Ferrari Acer One, HP DM1, the EeePC 1008HA, the Gigabyte M1022 and T1028, the special HP Mini Edition 110 Tord Boontje. Some nettops were also shown running Windows 7 including – the Acer AspireRevo, EeeBox EB150 as well as other less known machines.
Here you go folks, if you’ve been wondering what netbooks and nettops are going to support Windows 7, Asus has officially released its Windows 7 product line up. Actually practically all Eee PCs netbooks as well as the Eee Box will have Windows 7 together with upcoming models announced previously.
So here goes, Asus Windows 7 product line up. Which one are you going to get to have a taste of Windows 7?
Netbook Reviews is running a full hands-on feature of the upcoming Eee Box EB1501 – now with the monicker “the world’s smallest, and first VESA-mountable PC with an internal optical drive.
The Eee Box EB1501 is loaded with a slim, slot feed DVD burner, NVIDIA Ion graphics, dual core Intel Atom 330 CPU and supports HD display capability. It also features a 2GB of RAM, 250GB of HDD, Windows 7 Premium, 6 USB ports, multicard reader, HDMI and VGA output, Wi-Fi and Gigabit Ethernet.
The Eee Box is capable displaying HD video at a low processor usage of only around 14%. That will give you pretty much several hours to complete two movies on one run I guess.
Another interesting feature of the Eee Box EB1501 is that it comes with a desk stand and VESA bracket that will allow users to mount the nettop at the back of their HDTVs or LCD Monitors.
The Asus Eee Box EB1501 will be available with Windows 7 Home Premium for around £339.
And here’s a short video demo of the Eee Box EB1501 running in full circles.
MSI just announced two upgraded models of its Wind Box – the DE200 and DC200. These two nettops are both equipped with Intel Atom 230 processor, 1GB of RAM, 160GB HDD and Windows XP Home.
Other usual nettop goodies are also included including Wi-Fi, 2 USB ports, and 6-in-1 card readers. An HDMI video out was added for the Wind Box DE200 for HD video playback as well as a discrete graphicto support up to DX9.
As you may have noticed, these specs may not be something to die for, but still good enough to bump up the capabilities of these two nettops nonetheless.
Price tag is at $249.99 for the DC200 and $299.99 for the DE200. If you’re interested on getting any of these nettops here are the pre-order pages – DE200 and DC200.
Well, look what we have here – a sparkling new AspireRevo donning a much better specs and features. The AspireRevo is Acer’s official entry to the nettop market which was recently released for public consumption. In fact, it was not too long ago, but here comes Acer announcing a more powerful and better performing nettop, I suppose.
The new AspireRevo nettop is now loaded with Windows 7, dual-core Atom 330 CPU, 2GB of RAM and take not of this, full ION graphics.
Complete specs of the Acer AspireRevo are as follow:
1080p HDMI output
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Intel Atom 330 Processor (1.6GHz)
Integrated NVIDIA® ION Graphics Solution
2GB DDR2 SDRAM Memory
160GB SATA Hard Drive
Six USB 2.0 Ports (Two Front, Four Back)
HDMI Port
eSATA Port
VGA Port
Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
802.11b/g/Draft-N Wireless
Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
USB Stereo Speakers
High-Definition Headphone and Microphone Jacks
Interested with the AspireRevo? Unfortunately, as much as I want to give you the price info, I’m afraid that it is not yet available.
Asus did not take too much time to redesign its previously announced EeeBox EB1012 and announced (although still unofficially) the EeeBox EB1501. What makes this nettop different from its siblings are three things – NVIDIA Ion chipset and Intel Atom 333 dual-core processor and Windows 7.
The last feature earn the EeeBox EB1501 the title of being the first nettop loaded with Windows 7.
Other specs include 2GB of RAM (expandable up to 4GB), 250GB of HDD, built-in DVD burner, and HDMI port.
The EeeBox EB1501 will most likely get a price tag of around $580 when it reach the European market.
If you purchased Asus’ first nettop, the EeeBox B202 not so long ago, chances are you might have already noticed that even though Asus packed it with a fan inside to reduce heating problems. Heating problem is of course common among computers with small form factor.
So the fan inside would have been a great solution but the problem is users found out that it doesn’t seem to shut off especially when it is not reall needed.
The solution? Blogee.net discovered that Asus has made available a BIOS update which you can download here.
Expect for another onslaught of new netbook releases either t before the year ends or early next year. For sure, once Intel releases its new processor that will replaced the Atom CPU that we find in most netbooks nowadays, netbook manufacturers will be rushing to beat each other in coming up first with a Pineview netbooks/nettops.
Intel confirmed this during the IDF earlier this week. And even gave some information about what to expect from the Pineview CPU once it gets into the insides of our beloved netbooks and nettops.
Pineview would make netbooks and nettops’ CPU smaller and would allo w manufacturers to come up with thinner netbooks. Power consumption will also improved hence longer battery life.
Aside from these, communication between the processor and memory will also be faster, so future netbooks will be much much faster than current netbook models. Multimedia capabilities will also be enhanced so expect manufacturers to explore and on this. Perhaps make their netbooks HD capable.
But most important of all Pineview CPU will cost less than Atom so we might be seeing cheaper and yet powerful netbooks in the future.
What’s happening with Asustek? It seems that the company is getting a bit disorganized when it comes to announcing their new products. After the mysterious Eee PC 1201N showed up in some Chinese product page, here it goes again with another unofficially announced Eee PC – the 1001HA.
From the looks of it, this Eee PC surely belongs to the Seashell family. It boasts of the usual Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, 160GB of HDD and Windows XP Home OS. What’ peculiar about this Eee PC is the fact that it has a “wavy” texture finish and a chasis similar to that of the Eee PC 1005HA.
Price tag as listed in some stores in Europe is something around 250 to 300 euros. The Eee PC 1001HA will be available sometime next week in those European stores.
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