Asus Eee Keyboard wows us all

By on Jan 7, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Hardware January 7, 2009

Asus most definitely came to CES today packing heat and without a doubt, one of its most impressive announcements was the Eee Keyboard. We want it and we want it now. The Eee Keyboard stuffs a PC with respectable netbook-like specs into, you guessed it, a keyboard. Flat Mac-like keys and a 5-inch touchscreen display sit atop a very thin keyboard frame with a host of connections on the back – connections you potentially don’t even need, we might add. Asus’ new take on the all-in-one features Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n along with wireless HDMI and Bluetooth 2.0 meaning that short of a power cord, users can connect wirelessly to any and all required peripherals including a high definition display or HDTV. We’ll take things in a different direction – imagine carrying this puppy around with a pocket projector and having access to a full PC with a sizable projected display anywhere and everywhere you go. Specs on this innovative little piece of kit are as follows:

  • Self-contained PC / keyboard combo with integrated 5-inch touchscreen display
  • OS: Windows XP Home Edition
  • 1.6GHz Intel Atom microprocessor
  • 1GB of DDR2 DRAM
  • 16GB or 32GB SSD
  • Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n
  • Bluetooth 2.0
  • Ultra Wideband HDMI
  • USB 2.0 x2, VGA, HDMI, headphone and mic ports
  • Weight: 2 lbs

Pricing and projected availability are still a bit of a mystery, though Asus CEO Johnny Shih claims it will be available in the next three to six months, so we’ll be waiting with bated breath. Hit the jump for two more shots.

[Via Giz]

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  • dwindle

    Cute, but useless.

  • Robert

    Asus was a great company till they decided to join there self at the hip to a 9 year old operating system. I mean I agree after 9 years xp has finally become a decent os but seriously it is 9 years old. I think the purpose of the company is to serve as a warning to all other companies what not to do. Its sad that a company what comes out with innovative stuff like this has there pants down and is the jail bait of windows. It really doesn’t make sense ASUS get it together.

    • MeYou32

      If you don’t like it install another OS.

  • nacho2k3

    So put Linux on it or make a Hackintosh out of the little bugger. Hasn’t stopped other Netbook fans, don’t see why this would.

    Can’t wait to see this in person… I love all-in-one concepts, this wouldn’t satisfy a road-warrior type, but for a student who’d like a (hopefully affordable) starter PC, or for a hobbyist wanting a small form factor computer for something, this is great!

  • William

    wait… that thing IS A COMPUTER!?!?!?

    • http://arcade.roflninja.com/ Connor

      Yes William.

  • james braselton

    hi there your right were going all the way back too the comadore 64 useing fast flash memory instead of a slow hard drive and the thing looks alwsoume with 1.6 ghz cpu 1 gb of ram and a 16 or 32 gb ssd and 5 inch touch screen is alsoume its like iphone 3 gs with a built in keyboard wich also has 32 gb of flash memmory i notice that there are 2 usb ports for 2 usb 64 gb ssd back up flash drives or 128 gb usb flash drives

  • croatianblackhawk

    there is a battery according to popscience it lasts around 1.5 hours.

  • http://dailyphones.blogspot.com Daily Phones

    awesome keboard! ilove Asus

  • David

    Didn’t Commodore have this idea?

  • Scott

    Awesome. It’s like the Apple IIc / IIe never went away.

    But seriously: Asus has some great ideas and designs. Hell, they basically invented the netbook…

  • el brizz

    this just looks exactly like the new macbook pro keyboard with an iphone put in the side of it …

  • http://na jas

    “On Jun 22, 2009 @ 12:45 am, Robert Said:

    Asus was a great company till they decided to join there self at the hip to a 9 year old operating system. I mean I agree after 9 years xp has finally become a decent os but seriously it is 9 years old. I think the purpose of the company is to serve as a warning to all other companies what not to do. Its sad that a company what comes out with innovative stuff like this has there pants down and is the jail bait of windows. It really doesn’t make sense ASUS get it together.”

    funny cause my asus laptop shipped with vista home prem

  • WTF

    hmmm interesting

    but my question is that can it aucally be used as a keyboard?

    If not than the G15 Gaming Keyboard is much better…

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  • Cool Toys

    Looks pretty cool
    Check out the laptops they unveiled …SWEEEET!
    http://tiny.cc/6xfFA

  • james braselton

    hi there to late asus eee keyboard apple tablet is out before this thng saw the light of day every one has been looking at the apple ipad on the interenet and apple website saying you will difffently be able too buy the ipad on april 3 but you are right asus has cool laptops but i am interested in asus new e-book reader or i-book reader and asus new smart book with a 7 inch screen 512 mb of rom and 512 mb of ram and say 2 to 4 gb flash memory for $85 they also have another one with 16 gb ssd or a 20 gb smart book i wounder if apple will bring out a i keyboard too compete with the eee keyboard may be if computition comes in with a simular product then eee keyboard will see day light finaly it’s alll have been romers

    • Drago

      Are you suggesting that the iPad is competition for an all-in-one? The iPad is a portable browser/media box with only one interface option. The EeeKeyboard is a full-fledged PC, with proper inputs, outputs, storage, and nearly limitless function (within its processor bounds). Do you think because a pile of poop was found before a $100 bill that most people would pick up the pile of poop?

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  • tom

    Imagine this thing with the projector built in. better yet, one with an option to set the aspect ratio to project on the table in front of it laying down flat.

  • joske

    I know some people who tend to smash their keyboards when they do bad in games … Wait … That’s a good thing if the pc is in the keyboard! then their computer crashes!

  • notforme

    I would much rather have my old IBM keyboard tyvm, if a burglar would ever come i could kill him with it and it would still work after that. It doesnt work anymore tho, but it lasted 10 years and the reason it broke was cos my old tvset fell down on it and broke it in two pieces almost, it still kidna works except the spacebar.

  • C975A23

    Copy of Apple (again)

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