ASUS Eee Box B202 / B204 / B206 Expert Reviews

ASUS has expanded its Eee range of products with the new EeeBox. We take the time to see what we can do with it.

The EeeBox really does what it's supposed to and very well. It's a well priced machine that is compact, looks good and does general office work well, including email, MS Office and internet. You could watch some XVID movies and TV shows, but that's ...

Well-designed, ultrasmall desktop serves for basic computing, but don't expect much in the way of performance.

Clever, compact design ; Low price

No optical drive ; Lackluster performance

With its white, boxy, angular design, the Eee Box recalls Apple's Airport Extreme or Nintendo's Wii. It includes a screw-on stand, as well as a VESA mount for attaching the system to the back of a monitor. And, unlike some ultracompact desktops, the ...

Asus has been cranking out new versions of the Eee PC faster than a Kansas twister, all thanks to the growing herd of Eee-mitators out there. Still, with everyone and their grandmother now hot for these little dwarfbooks, the company's continued claim ...

Small, lightweight and cuter than bowl full of kittens. More than enough processing power for everyday computing. Cheaper than an ounce of Da Kine bud. The option of running Splashtop for pre-boot access to Skype, web browsing and IM clients.

Where's the optical drive? No HDMI output, which actually doesn't matter much because there's also no hardware decode acceleration. By itself, the Atom processor can barely handle 720p H.264 streams, dashing our hopes of this being the ultimate home ...

A stylish, space-saving desktop that's fine for surfing the Web and only basic computing chores.

Compact, stylish design, Low power consumption, Good Wi-Fi performance, Quick boot

Weak multimedia performance, Slow hard drive, No optical drive

The Eee Box offers a basic array of connections. The front panel features two USB ports, a card reader that takes SD/SDHC, MMC/MMC Plus, and MS/MS Pro Cards, and headphone and microphone jacks. On the back are two more USB ports, an additional audio ...

ASUS has built up a reputation for building inexpensive and small but useful PCs, with its EeePC laptops. The company is expanding the idea of inexpensive and small PCs to desktops with the Eee Box PC ($350 list). The Eee Box is an Intel Atom ...

Tiny. Quiet. Energy-efficient. "Express Gate" pre-Windows quick-boot mode. Windows XP Home (compatibility, software). Mountable on VESA monitor. Multithreaded processor

Smallish hard drive. No 3D performance worth speaking of. Low benchmark test numbers. Some apps may be incompatible. 1GB of memory. No CD or DVD drive. It's Windows, so you're vulnerable to Windows malware and viruses

The ASUS Eee Box PC is just what it's billed to be: a tiny PC that runs Windows XP and is good for Web surfing and simple tasks.

Check out our hands on of the ASUS Eee Box, the first nettop to have made its way to our labs. Stay with us as we get our hands on action with this Intel Atom based nettop that may change the world of cheap miniature computing.

We've been playing with a prototype of ASUS' Eee Box and we're finally able to bring you coverage on this sub-$300 PC. Complementing our Eee Box coverage are our first benchmarks of Intel's Atom processor.

The problem is that a kitchen PC that could be used to check emails, look up recipes or chat with someone while cooking wasn't really feasible when decent PCs would set you back at least $1500. As PC prices fell however, the possibility of putting a ...

EEE Box is the smallest desktop PC in the world and can be easily moved from room to room. It can be mounted to most of LCD in order to save even more space. Its 8.5-inch x 7-inch x...

The Eee Box B206 is a tiny media-centre PC that can be easily bolted onto the back of a display, turning a TV or monitor into an all-in-one-style PC. Its performance with high-definition video isn't great, but undemanding users seeking a simple box to ...

Appealing design; relatively low price

Poor performance; can't play most high-definition video formats

The Asus Eee Box B206 falls between two stools -- it's not powerful enough to take on other media-centre PCs and can't play back high-definition video as well as many of the cheaper media streamers on the market. That said, for undemanding users who ...