Taken from PCWorld Magazine, November 2008 Edition

Asus’s Eee Box features a smaller footprint and a slimmer profile than the average laptop – and yet it’s designed to sit on your desk.  The Eee Box is a bargain as a basic home PC, but the machine’s performance is not high-end.

The Eee Box comes with a 1.6 Ghz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 80GB Hard Drive.  It also has an integrated  Intel GMA 950 graphics chip that relies on shared video memory.

Though the Eee Box will do fine for browsing online and for word processing, it is hardly a robust unit.  In some ways, though, performance is not the point: The system is designed to be a basic, power-saving network-attached device.  Asus says that the Box draws just 15 to 20 watts of power – a smaller amount than most laptops use.

The Eee Box is a great value that’s geared toward students, as well as home and small-office users.  That the system comes with Windows XP Home, Microsoft Works and StarOffice only sweetens the deal.

ICS Note:  These small systems can even be mounted on the back of an LCD Monitor, making a very compact and user-friendly workstation.