ASUS Eee Box 206 with HDMI

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The Taiwan based technology giant, ASUS have announced the Eee Box 206 nettop which adds a new AMD ATI Radeon HD 3450 GPU and an HDMI port to the original Eee Box design. The ASUS Eee Box 206 comes up with a remote control and DVI-D output adapter, with the company positioning it as the ideal eco-friendly accompaniment to your HDTV.

Basically, ASUS's Eee Box 206 is an enhanced version of the Eee Box mini computer. Without any doubts though, the improvements make the Eee Box 206 a pretty cool little machine. The Eee Box 206 is packed full of goodies that comes with an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor, 1GB DD2 RAM, and 160GB Sata hard drive. Asus have also included an ATI Radeon HD3450 graphics card with 256MB of DDR2 memory.

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Eee Box 206 have implemented Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor paired with Intel’s 945GSE chipset along with 1GB of DDR2 memory and a 160GB 5,400rpm hard-drive. Apart from HDMI functionality, the connectivity also includes audio in/out, a headphone socket, WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth. However, there is no optical drive.

ASUS preload the Eee Box 206 with their Eee Cinema media front-end, running on top of Windows XP Home. According to Asus, it would be very well suited as either (i) a home entertainment PC or (ii) desktop computer in the work place. Eee Box 206 includes enhanced multimedia features that make it perfect for watching videos at home. Also, due to the fact that it's in such a convenient size and doesn’t use a lot of power, it’s bound to be attractive to energy conscious businesses as well .

Eee Box 206 nettop is available in white or black.

It is priced at around £310 ($438).