We reported in February about a couple of new products that would soon be joining the Eee PC in ASUS’ small, user-friendly computing line. Now, the first of these products, the E-DT desktop variant of the Eee hardware, has been pictured. The initial quoted price of the E-DT product was $200, which does not seem too unreasonable considering the lack of a display and I/O devices. However, the Eee PC was originally supposed to cost $200 as well, but it entered the market at $300 and is still available for that price today.

As pictured, the E-DT bears a striking resemblance to pretty much every other minimalistic box released in the past few years, including the Mac Mini, Shuttle X100, Nintendo Wii, and especially ASUS’ own Nova P22. In fact, if we had to guess what ASUS based the chassis of their E-DT off of, we would definitely choose the Nova P22, and the existence of that system shows definitely that ASUS can easily pull off a system in this particular form factor.

Where the original Eee PC sold extremely well as a basic all-inclusive inexpensive productivity device, the E-DT’s market might be substantially smaller, as the form factor is significantly larger and it requires the use of a separate keyboard, mouse, and monitor to boot. Of course the E-DT will still sell a ton of units, since today’s world is in love with cute, tiny, minimalistic devices.

Source: HotHardware

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