Asus Eee Keyboard

ASUS Eee Keyboard PC

ASUS Eee Keyboard is a computer that had a built-in PC motherboard within a full-size keyboard form factor in a manner of an old-style 1980s PC's: ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, or similar nowadays Cybernet's keyboard computer models, ZPC-GX31, ZPC-D5 or ZPC-H6. It has a touchscreen in place of a conventional keypad. ASUS had plans to start shipping the device in September 2009. It was first shown at CeBIT 2010 and launched in March 2010.^[1] The actual appearing on the market comes with big delay and device was overpriced for its time.

The ASUS Eee Keyboard EK1542 represents a standard set of features for netbooks of the year 2008. It featured an Intel Atom N270 processor with TDP 2.5 Watts, built around Intel 945GSE chipset with TDP 6 Watts & ICH7-M South bridge with TDP 3.3 Watts. An Mobile Intel 945GSE Express chipset has been integrated into the Intel GMA 950 video subsystem, so the performance is similar to the Asus EEE PC 901 and Asus EEE PC 1000.

The computer comes with Windows XP Home Edition. An additional 1 GB RAM DDR2 as well as a Solid State Drive are soldered directly to motherboard thus memory upgrade is not available. The storage is 16GB SSD for models EK1542-S0095 and EK1542-S0325, and 32GB SDD for model EK1542-S0185. Network interface is an standard gigabit LAN adapter, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n @2.4 GHz, and Bluetooth. Sound system are done by Realtek, as the 2 small speakers are built-in. The Li-Po accumulator provided has a capacity of 49 W*h.

It had some unique features, like a 5", 800x480 screen with a Multi-touch Panel, a Broadcom 70010/70012 Solution video decoder for accelerating high definition H.264 and VC-1 video compression algorithms, and an Wireless 720p Video Transmitting function with the usage of Ultra-wideband Technology (an UWB minicard with a standalone receiver box, connecting to TV/Monitor via HDMI interface).

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