Event Coverage

ASUS @ CeBIT 2009

By Vijay Anand - 4 Mar 2009

More Eee with Eee Keyboard PC, Eee Station and Eee Videophone

More Eee with Eee Keyboard PC, Eee Station and Eee Videophone

Just when you thought the Eee branding would end with what we've seen so far, ASUS is extending it to other forms and in fact wants to embrace this as a whole new brand separate from the ASUS brand. After all, the Eee branding stands for Easy, Entertaining and Exciting.

 Just when you thought the Eee branding would end there, ASUS is extending it to other forms. Meet the Eee Station PC NAS. Powered by an Atom platform (which you should've guessed), it has 2GB of DDR2 memory, 512MB of Flash ROM, takes in a pair of 3.5-inch hard drives (up to 2GB max total capacity), and is able to configure them in RAID 0, 1 and JBOD. It is also equipped with slot-in DVD writer and a 802.11n MIMO AP router. All in, it's a centralized solution for file storage and sharing with unattended content downloading capability.

 Note that it even comes built-in with a small 3.5-inch touch-screen display for managing the storage subsystem. The rear of the unit has a DVI output, four USB ports, four LAN ports, one WAN port and the usual audio outputs.

 And here's the highly talked about Eee Keyboard PC. Yes, it is a fully functional PC (using the Atom platform again) in the form of a keyboard and a 5-inch touch screen.

 Here's ASUS Chairman Johney Shih introducing the Eee Keyboard PC.

While you would think what purpose would a keyboard PC with a tiny screen serve, he explained that this the Eee Keyboard PC would make for an excellent media center extender. Think about it - why do you want to get a separate a wireless keyboard set for HTPC needs and an MCE device when you can have it all in one unit on the keyboard and let it be your ultimate media controller. This will be a handy device to interact with your home theatre equipment - provided that they are all wireless ready. This little gadget is using wireless HDMI standard.

Here's a close-up of the Eee Keyboard PC in operation. Notice the Windows XP OS? The 5-inch touch-screen can be difficult to use in the usual Windows environment as it's screen is too small.

 Here's another look at the model manipulating the touch-screen display.

 However, once you bring on the customized UI, navigating and utilizing the Eee Keyboard PC is much more easy.

 A final shot of it being utilized by the model. You can tell that the unit is very slim, modern and chic. (okay, the same can be said of the model too).

 And here we have the Eee Videophone AiGuru SV1. ASUS claims that this is the world's first PC-free videophone for Skype. It has a 7-inch display, webcam and is Wi-Fi capable for unlimited face-to-face video calls. You could say that this is a simple all-in-one video conferencing solution.

 And here's the AiGuru U1, a Skype phone for the Eee PC. Other specs are as indicated.

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