Thursday, June 4, 2009

Asus Eee Keyboard demoed at Computex

Engadget Chinese captured the demo of the Eee Keyboard from Asus at Computex in Taiwan. This is quite a surprise for me, to see a keyboard that runs an Atom N270 processor and a standalone Windows XP accessed through a 800x480 touch screen to the right of the keyboard.

The Eee Keyboard comes in 2 flavors - wired and wireless versions. For the wired version, you just plug your monitor and mouse directly into the keyboard. The wireless version will have an internal battery that will last about 2 hours of usage, and will transmit the video to a separate receiver which the monitor is connected to.

All in all, a pretty impressive way to repackage the "netbook" concept, and definitely show a lot of promise. The keyboard will be launched in end of June sometime.

Until then, check out the video by Engadget Chinese.