Sexy Machine

Man, this is a machine that is aiming straight for my heart! Ignoring for a moment, the blatantly cheesy name “Eee Monitor”, it is still a svelte and sexy machine. Photos of it are just making the rounds around the Internet. It’s not just a monitor, but carries a full blown PC inside it. Plus, it will come standard with Linux for under $500!

This machine is definitely going to give the iMac a run for it’s money. Some people may complain about the fact that these machines are a little underpowered compared to the iMac. That is true as the Eee will only come with an Atom processor, which is the new line of low-powered mobile focused processor chips from Chipzilla. It is a processor that is essentially a Pentium inside the body of a i386. So, it is certainly underpowered for computational fluid dynamics. But it’s more than enough for your everyday applications.

Furthermore, people should stop thinking of computers as singular entities whose computing powers are limited to what’s inside the box. Think clusters. If someone were to be setting up a small office, for example, networking 10 of these machines with a single quad core computer server, would actually be more efficient and powerful than having 10 top end boxes individually. Not to mention, it would look far cooler than having 10 regular beige boxes sitting on the desk.

Personally, I think that ASUS has been doing a great job recently, innovating like crazy and opening up new market niches where no one has gone before, which is forcing everyone else to follow along. They started with the Eee PC, which has opened up a market that is now known as the “NetBook” market. This has forced everyone else, from HP, Dell, Acer, MSI to play catch-up. Then, ASUS released it’s Eee Box, which is trying to give the Apple mini, a run for it’s money. And now this!

Whomever says that the PC computing market is dead, is obviously wrong. Although the Eee PC may be a novelty that appeals mainly to road-warriors and hacker-like people, I can potentially see an Eee Monitor in every home and office. I’d like to see Acer come up with an equivalent device at a $400 price point instead. That would be just snazzy and I’ll grab one or more of these for myself.

PS: They should fire their marketing department though, for coming up with such lame names as Eee PC, Eee Box and Eee Monitor. What will they think of next?