I really liked the concept of the Eee Keyboard. A whole computer crammed into a full sized keyboard would actually save a bunch of space at offices and it wouldn't be a bad purchase for parents who want to buy their kids a "desktop" and not worry about it breaking.
That being said, I think Asus dropped the ball. They put components in the Eee Keyboard that were standard over one year ago, the 16GB SSD is just laughable now, and choosing Windows XP looks odd especially whenever most everyone else is going with either Windows 7 Starter or Windows 7 Home Premium. Lastly, that $599 price is just ridiculous especially considering you can get a better equipped Eee PC for less.
I could see charging $599 if it offered the dual-core, hyper-threaded, 64-bit Atom 330 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, 802.11n wi-fi, bluetooth, Windows 7 Home Premium, and the Nvidia ION platform but it doesn't.
The Acer Aspire Revo 3100 (I think that is the model) is looking more and more appealing now especially with its $350 price tag. Sure, it isn't built into a standard keyboard but it comes with everything I mentioned above (except that it has a 160GB hard drive, not 250GB), an eSATA port, 6 USB 2.0 ports, a built-in wireless receiver for its wireless keyboard and mouse set, offers expansion (users can upgrade it to 4GB of RAM and swap out the hard drive for a much larger capacity), and all of that in a package smaller than a Nintendo Wii.
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