ASUS kEEEyboard on Ubergizmo

[ricercar]

Asus Eee Keyboard Unboxed

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/04/asus_eee_keyboard_unboxed.html

Um, the box looks cool.

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[Rajagra]

Nice. WTF is it though?

[erricrice]

It's basically a netbook that's just a keyboard.  Pretty cool concept, I think.  Has that small onboard screen but also output(which are meant to be it's main use) so it's very useful for being like a portable workstation type thing.

[kriminal]

heh the only use i see for that is being some multimedia keyboard for a htpc or something..

[ch_123]

I like the concept. If Apple was clever, they'd make something like that out of the Mac Mini

[wellington1869]

its a cell phone with a ginormous keyboard.

I could see writers liking it a lot actually.

Wish the reviewer had turned it on. Is it a regular atom pc?

$599, pre order on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003HK5RM6?tag=i4ufututechne-20&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B003HK5RM6&adid=0K56DCDK92JRTC9TQKZE&

Product Description
LED-backlit keyboard , 5", 800x480 Multi-touch Panel (Capacitive), Windows XP Home, Intel Atom N270, DDR2 1GB on board memory, 16G SSD + Unlimited ASUS Web Storage (60-day-trial), Broadcom 70010/70012 HD Codec Solution, Ultra-wideband Technology, WLAN 802.11b/g/n @2.4 GHz, 10/100/1000 Mbps, Bluetooth V2.1, Internal Built-in Battery (up to 4 hrs), HDMI out x 1, VGA out x 1, Antenna x 1 (WLAN + Ultra-Wideband), Giga LAN x 1, USB 2.0, x 3, Headphone x 1, Microphone x 1. Also included: Ultra-wideband Receiver (with Adapter), Quick Start Guide/User Manual, HDMI Cable, Mini-USB Cable, Power Adapter, Warranty Card.


Shows the screen: Basically it comes with some apps and connects to the simplified versions of websites, tho if you plug in an external monitor, then it looks like normal XP:

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[ch_123]

They're still using XP? FFS

[itlnstln]

They're still using XP? FFS

It must be a business-class machine.

[Mercen_505]

They're still using XP? FFS

Unfortunately, there are a lot of business as well as industrial software packages that have not been updated to work properly (or certified, to use the lingo) with Vista/7.

[itlnstln]

Fortunately, everything we use works with 7.  Just don't tell my IT department.  I'm not exactly, uh, testing it or anything.

[hyperlinked]

I think it'd make for some really cool potential interfaces to have a keyboard with a touch screen and that's certainly one of the selling points of the item, but I'm not all in on it as a portable. It's essentially an awkardly shaped laptop with the low end power of a netbook.

I think it'd be better if they angled this more as an all-in-one device rather than as a portable. If I owned this, I'd like to have a little more juice in it. I wouldn't be carting this thing to the cafe with me, but I might haul it from my office to the living room or to an associate's place to do some work. I wouldn't need it to be a light as possible, just as something that's easy to carry around.

I guess this is all pretty similar to what ch_123 said about this and a Mac Mini. It could be a perfect mobile low end server or groupware connector.

[wellington1869]

Unfortunately, there are a lot of business as well as industrial software packages that have not been updated to work properly (or certified, to use the lingo) with Vista/7.

thats the case at our school, all kinds of financial apps dont have vista/7 versions. Our IT guys are scrambling to make special deals with dell and others to continue supplying XP computers.

[wellington1869]

I think it'd make for some really cool potential interfaces to have a keyboard with a touch screen and that's certainly one of the selling points of the item, but I'm not all in on it as a portable. It's essentially an awkardly shaped laptop with the low end power of a netbook.

I think it'd be better if they angled this more as an all-in-one device rather than as a portable. If I owned this, I'd like to have a little more juice in it. I wouldn't be carting this thing to the cafe with me, but I might haul it from my office to the living room or to an associate's place to do some work. I wouldn't need it to be a light as possible, just as something that's easy to carry around.

I guess this is all pretty similar to what ch_123 said about this and a Mac Mini. It could be a perfect mobile low end server or groupware connector.

It reminds me of the alphasmart a little bit. But with a nicer screen in a way, and functional wifi.



I could see maybe taking it on tech support cases or to a cafe if you're writing fiction.  Would get some stares tho.

[wellington1869]

Why does it have a keyboard?

its an iphone with a keyboard

[kishy]

Networking is a big problem. It's too difficult (read: too time consuming to figure out how) to properly integrate 7 systems on a domain in, for example, a school where the systems need to be totally locked down. Such fluff as homegroups and any other "dumbing down" of the networking features makes it tricky for someone who's been supporting XP/2k machines for a large part of their career.

That said, if that dumbing down were possible to easily remove from the picture...I'd appreciate knowing myself because I might just find it tolerable enough to install again.

[itlnstln]

Windows 7 Pro * + domain name = problem solved.  It took me less than 2 minutes to get on my work domain.  Really, once you get to the network adapter properties (which is about 1 extra click), it's the same as it has been for years.  The stupid Network and Sharing Center is a little dumb, but pretty easy to ignore.

*Windows 7 Home Premium does not support domains, though.  It's, basically the only difference between the two.

[kishy]

Oh, so that just...takes care of it?

In that case, looks like I need a domain at home.

[itlnstln]

Check it:

[nraymond]

It's basically a netbook that's just a keyboard.  Pretty cool concept, I think. Has that small onboard screen but also output(which are meant to be it's main use) so it's very useful for being like a portable workstation type thing.

I'm really indifferent to this ASUS thing.  I'm sure it just has a scissor-switch membrane keyboard in it, and I'm having a hard time picturing how having that tiny touch-screen monitor built into it is truly useful.

If a Commodore VIC-20 and the Logitech G19 keyboard had sex, the ASUS ASUS EeeKeyboard would be their child, and I'm just not sure the world needed that to happen.

[quadibloc]

I think it's high time that Cybernet had some competition.

[phoenix]

I actually thought about doing this to a terminal board, replacing the numpad area with an iphone dock, where the iphone can lie flat and be used as a touch pad, or the top f-key rows with an iPad dock, which i think will make the keyboard look sort of like a typewriter. I've been searching for dead apple wireless keyboards on ebay for this.

its a cell phone with a ginormous keyboard.

[ch_123]

I was thinking of a more drastic version of that - getting something like a beagleboard and sticking it inside the keyboard.

[hyperlinked]

I actually thought about doing this to a terminal board, replacing the numpad area with an iphone dock, where the iphone can lie flat and be used as a touch pad, or the top f-key rows with an iPad dock, which i think will make the keyboard look sort of like a typewriter. I've been searching for dead apple wireless keyboards on ebay for this.

Someone sorta already did this. It's not an actual dock and it's meant to hold any smartphone.
USB 2.0 Keyboard + Smartphone Stand by Matias

[InSanCen]

google "God mode win 7" and You can bypass almost all the fluff that Win7 has when you just want to change a setting damnit!