ASUS redesigned EB1501 model. As before, this one packs the increasingly common one-two punch of NVIDIA’s Ion chipset and Intel’s Atom 333 dual-core processor, but makes its mark by being the first EeeBox (and one of the first nettops) to come pre-loaded with Windows 7, which also means it’s not shipping until the end of the month. Otherwise, you’ll get the usual 2GB of RAM (expandable to 4GB) and 250GB hard drive, a built-in DVD burner, and an HDMI port to make it feel right at home in your home theater.

And this model should be ideal for running XBMC

[Via Notebook Italia]

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ASUS has a new EeeBox PC EB1012 touting a dual-core Atom N330

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B208 Packs Dual-Core Atom & Radeon 4350 Graphics

Having already pushed the limits of the nettop – as defined as a small, low powered device – with the Eee Box B204 and B206 Asus is at it again with the B208. This time the company has crammed a dual-core Atom chip and Radeon HD 4350 graphics into the same teeny tiny package. 1.6GHz dual-core Atom 330 sits alongside 1GB of RAM, which seems a little stingy, but at least the HD 4350 gets 256MB of its own memory to play with – easing the strain a little. 160GB, 250GB and 320GB hard drive-sporting configurations will be available all useful for storing HD content, which can be decoded using the GPU, to be played back over the B208’s HDMI port.
Connectivity comes in the form of a quartet of USB ports, Ethernet and Draft-N wireless. A built-in battery provides a UPS-like capability to shut down safely should power fail; the system isn’t going to get operating life comparable Eee PC netbooks, though. Especially as Vista, rather than XP, is installed – with Eee Cinema and a bundled remote catering for multimedia playback.

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It looks like the new ASUS Eee Box, the B206, isn’t quite the high-def powerhouse it was intended to be. According to Register Hardware’s review, the poor little thing had a real hard time playing even 720p video, only managing to render every frame when video was played back in DirectX Video Acceleration-capable players. That rules out many popular choices like QuickTime and VLC, and you can forget about 1080p entirely.

This is quite disapointing news as it will be of no use to run XBMC

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