Asus releases Eee Box, desktop Eee PC

Asus' new computer, the EeeBox, is designed to complement its EeePC range of netbooks and is the size of a paperback book.  Its compact form factor allow it to be easily hung on the back of a monitor. 

Apart from being so small, this new machine's killer feature is that, like some of Asus' netbooks, it can load a limited environment suitable for browsing the web in just 7 seconds.

It's available in both white and black:


Inside, these machines are built from fairly modest, netbook-standard, components.  That means an Atom 270 1.6 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM and an 80 GB hard drive. 

Windows XP comes as standard, but a keyboard, mouse and other accessories don't.