Asus Eee Box B202 Compact PC
Well-designed, ultrasmall desktop serves for basic computing, but don't expect much in the way of performance.
The PC just shrank further: With a smaller footprint and a slimmer profile than the average notebook's, Asus's Eee Box requires little space on your desk. The Box starts at just $350 (computer only; no monitor included), making it a great value for anyone looking for a basic home PC for managing photos, sending e-mail, surfing the Web, and performing other common tasks. But this machine isn't for everyone: Its modest components--including Intel's new, miniaturized, power-efficient Atom processor--earned an unimpressive performance score.
The Eee Box--the desktop sibling to Asus's Eee PC notebook--comes equipped with Windows XP Home, a 1.6-GHz N270 Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 5400-rpm, 80GB, 2.5-inch SATA-150 hard drive. The Eee Box also has an integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics card with shared video memory.
Though the Eee Box will do fine for getting online and for word processing, it is not a robust unit by any measure, scoring just 36 on our PC WorldBench 6 tests. By comparison, the Dell Studio Hybrid, a compact desktop based on more-typical and more-powerful ...
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Nick Mediati, PC World