asus eee box

Reports from DigiTimes last Tuesday points to Asustek planning to offer a Celeron-based Eee Box on top of the existing Intel Atom systems in order to lower retail price and boost sales. It's pretty obvious that Asus did not get good reception with their Eee Box compared to the Eee PC. When Asus debuted the Eee Box in the Philippines, it had a retail price of Php24,900 which includes a 16" LCD monitor. That leaves the Eee Box to around Php17,500 which is still expensive. So it looks like the Eee Box is a non-seller primarily because of the price. What's bugging me though is that the CPU downgrade from Atom to Celeron on the Eee Box was worth about Php3,000 on the retail price. Now, here's the trouble with going back to Celeron: What happens to the "very low power consumption" promise of an Eee Box? How would Asus make the Eee Box edge over the rest and those build-your-own systems? Read more in our articles including "Asus turns to Celeron to sell more Nettops" and "Why is the Asus Eee Box expensive?".