Asus EeeBox PC B208 Dual-Core HD Nettop – Ultimate HTPC?

Posted in news on Mar 17th, 2009 | one response

I missed this a week and a half ago, but for a little while there was a page or two on Asus’s site detailing the Asus EeeBox PC B208 nettop, though it seems to have magically disappeared now. I was actually looking for some more info on the Intel Atom 330 when I stumbled onto this discovery, but I think I may have finally found what I’m looking for in a TV computer: small, decent processor, non-crappy graphics, capable of playing HD video.

So here’s the quick and dirty for this bad boy:

Intel Atom 330 (that’s the dual-core wonder, there)

ATI Radeon HD 4350 with 256 MB of RAM (crappy, but for a nettop, pretty awesome)

1 GB RAM, 160GB HDD (or 320 GB depending on who you read), and the usual array of networking options.

And perhaps most importantly for a TV computer: HDMI (yay!).

Now, I haven’t looked into running OS X on EeeBoxes, but if that isn’t going to happen, then I’m picturing one of these screwed to the back of my new TV (whenever I get it) running linux and boxee and wired to my network via gigabit ethernet for network attached storage and a crapload of movies, music, and other entertainment.

Yeah, I’ll take two.

Hit up itechnews for more about the Asus EeeBox PC B208 nettop.

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