I'm planning to add the new Asus Eee Box B204 to a 32-inch, 720-line HDTV set as a space-saving combined PC and entertainment centre. The Eee Box is designed so it can be clipped to the back of a TV. It has an ATI Radeon HD 3400 graphics card and HDMI output. I'm also thinking of getting an external Blu-ray BD-RW/DVD-Rom. Would this combination work?
Peter Skillern
As you know, the Eee Box is based on netbook technology: it has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom with 1GB of memory and Windows XP Home. This should be OK for playing 720-pixel HD videos, and the graphics card can certainly handle Blu-ray, but I share your suspicion that the processor is underpowered for the job. Asus has just brought out a new Eee Box B203 with a 1.2GHz Intel Celeron 220 chip, which it also uses in the low-cost Asus X58C laptop. This should be a better bet for Blu-ray, but it would be safer to let someone else try it first. Have any readers tried it?
