Mysterious New Eee Monitor Could be iMac Competitor
Well what do we have here? A few upcoming Eee PCs were recently uncovered as images made the rounds earlier this week but here we have something completely new from Asus. So what is it exactly? To be completely honest, we’re not really sure. The unit is reportedly called the Eee Monitor and it had been discussed briefly at Computex earlier this year but the Taiwanese computer company made sure to sit on many key details. Well say hello to our little friend. Several shots of the Eee Monitor are now swimming around the internet and it looks like a gem. As was the case before, details are still a bit scarce but a quick look at the display, the logo in the bottom right corner on the face of the unit and the ports on the back of the unit lead to some pretty probable speculation. How about a self-contained PC with built in Denon audio hardware, a 19″ display and a rumored integrated TV tuner? We’ll take two, thanks. Word on the street is that there will be a 19″ and 21″ model and the price point will start at… Ready? $500.
integradted tv tuner? $500? Sign me up!
can someone say myth tv?
Can it be wall mounted?
Granted, if uses the highest end Atom processor, it fine on light media and surfing.
It would definitely be worth its weight as a living room/kitchen PC for use a Guest PC, Bedroom/Guestroom TV, Light media client & big ol’ picture frame, Home Automation center, etc. (When will the touch screen mod-kits come out?
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Wow, how innovative. It probably runs that great OS Vista…BLAH…LOL.
So it’s basically a $500, non expandable Vista POS.
Seem like nowdays every one is trying to rip Apple off.
@Daniel H: Sorry but usually, it’s Apple that is ripping us with their sky rocketing prices.
@aemond
“Sorry but usually, it’s Apple that is ripping us with their sky rocketing prices.”
$199 for an iPhone-3G, yeah I’m feeling really ripped off.
If everyone hasn’t figured out what ipod/iphones are… cheap introductions in the Apple market. My $3000 iMac is beautiful and I wouldn’t trade it for ANY pc-based system, but I could’ve spend far less on a similar, non-Apple computer.
I’m not quite ready to sell my iMac just yet. It does look cool.
Robert
http://www.photographyandthemac.com
Looks like a pretty nifty unit. Prolly using those slick solid state flash drives, vs. HDD.
Asus was showing off their flash-based $399 notebooks recently, those are coming soon too.
ehn pass i can build a better desktop myself
i feeled ripped off with the prices that their charging for the phone plans
An iphone is not $199…
An iphone is $199 + whatever stupid price your 24 month phone carrier colonic invasion is.
Seriously. They’re like $850 outright here (Australia). That’s *not* cheap.
the iMac is a pc-based system genius.