Following the announcement of three nettops intended to rival the Asus Eee Box, MSI has unveiled a new product into its Wind range that takes a different and rather unique approach to the all-in-one segment. The un-creatively named MSI Wind Box is a nettop crammed inside a slim black, fanless enclosure designed to be VESA-mounted to the back of your monitor, saving precious desk space and giving you a very inexpensive all-in-one of sorts.
Like virtually every other nettop in town, the MSI Wind Box will boast an Intel Atom N270 processor and either 1GB or 2GB of RAM under the hood. Other specs include a choice between a 160GB or 250GB hard drive, a multi-format memory card reader, three USB 2.0 ports, 802.11b/g wireless, audio ports with 7.1 surround sound support, VGA output and Windows XP. The entire system weighs just 500g and is expected to cost around €200 ($258) when it ships in early 2009.
Link: Tech Spot
Why not? I have an EEE Box B202, and I've installed Server 2003 on it. Most of the hardware got identified automatically, and drivers (sound? can't remember) are available for the rest.
As an aside, I had never even heard of that particular VESA standard until I bought my EEE--and sure enough, it turns out I have a monitor with the mounting holes lining up perfectly.
Throw more RAM at it; the Atom will run it fine.
Not "gaming machine" fast, but it'll still do fine for a lot of tasks.
VLB anyone? ISA, no?
I hear ya. I read the article and thought "What the hell as this got to do with video cards?"
Stupid buggers... Stop reusing established acronyms, even if they're a bit outdated now! THEY'RE STILL IN USE!
So I suppose this thing comes with the netbook and the stand? So you take out the stand on your monitor and mount the screen on the netbook + stand contraption?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesa
MSI really has it down pat with their Wind Box line.
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