ASUS Eee Box: Initial Impressions and Dissection

For those interested, AnandTech has dissected the Asus Eee Box and posted a lot of photos.

The machine used has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom with an Intel 945G chipset, 1GB of DDR2-667 memory and a 160GB Seagate Momentus 5400.4 2.5" SATA hard drive. There is no optical drive but the machine has built in Gigabit Ethernet and 802.11n wireless. Bluetooth is also built in.

Photo below shows the components - At the top is the Intel 945GMCH, the sliver of a CPU in the middle is the Atom, to the left of it is a standard Core 2 Duo E7200 and to the right is the 802.11n card. Above the 802.11n card is the sole SATA/power ports on the motherboard.




Source article here.