SlashGear Japan
The ASUS Eee Top all-in-one touchscreen PC isn’t even on customers’ desks yet, and the company are already talking about what features its successor might bring. Already in development, the second-gen Eee Top will include a wireless keyboard and mouse together with an internal rechargeable battery to turn it into a portable media center.
“You’ll be able to pick it up and take it with you. The plan is that you’ll be able to move it around the house” Matthew Warner, account manager, ASUS
Given the extra space on offer and its low-power components, it’s a fair assumption that a reasonably sized battery would be able to give the Eee Top some decent unplugged runtime. Its 15-inch display, far smaller than that on other touchscreen PCs such as HP’s TouchSmart range, then becomes a benefit rather than a drawback: picking the Eee Top up and whisking it from kitchen to bedroom would be a straightforward proposition.
ASUS apparently see the Eee Top as a flagship product for 2009, and are confident about strong sales not least because of its budget price tag (around £400 in the UK). The company recently announced its Q3 2008 financial performance, with the Eee PC range in general contributing to almost a quarter of ASUS’ revenues for the period.
3 Responses to “ASUS Eee Top v.2 to have battery, wireless keyboard & mouse”
ketan November 1, 2008
The power of even the most basic modern PCs is now enough to do many of the household tasks that you would normally require of them. This means that an clever company like ASUS can give the consumer versatile a PC at a cheap price.
NeutralHP take note in regards to your Touchsmart PC range
As Home netork storage become more common and cheaper then so will households with multiple medium powered PCs running media networks. There is going to be a lot of new opportunities out there but price will be the key to take up.
I like what ASUS has come up with here ( would make a great Kitchen media streamer if it has VESA mount on the back). Hpoefully other manufacturers get on the band wagon as with the original EeePC. There is a demand out there
ketan November 1, 2008
I just realized. Maybe the home automation Geeks (soory guys) are going to love this. It’s cheaper and bigger than most custom touch panels. They may use it as a desktop control panel.
Neutralgunnar-eee December 12, 2008
This news probably wasn’t hard to research. Juat read the product brochure !
The more expensive model ET1603 (not for sale yet)
comes with dedicated graphics card (but still no connector for external display) ,
and features a wireless keyboard and mouse.
All can be read in the product PDF for ET1602/ET1603 :
Neutralhttp://www.clove.co.uk/documen.....0011079748