Reg Hardware

Comments on: Touchscreen desktop Eee due November

How odd 

By Alex Walsh Posted Wednesday 15th October 2008 10:11 GMT

Thumb Down

What an odd combination- desktop and touchscreen. Not the combination I'd have expected.

Optical drives 

By David Gosnell Posted Wednesday 15th October 2008 10:39 GMT

Wot no DVD drive? No excuse.

Put it into a wall/desk 

By KenBW2 Posted Wednesday 15th October 2008 12:02 GMT

Paris Hilton

for that added Star Trek feel.

Also, Windows XP? Isn't that the tabbed Linux UI?

Paris, cos this model doesn't have one

Re: Put it into a wall/desk 

By William Towle Posted Friday 17th October 2008 14:53 GMT

<quote>Also, Windows XP? Isn't that the tabbed Linux UI?</quote>

Dual boot, or possibly ExpressGate* (SplashTop)?

* a stripped-down Linux environment stored in Flash ROM [which] allows users who are in a hurry to bypass Windows, loading the Firefox web browser, Adobe Flash, Skype, and a photo viewer "within a few seconds." [source: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8260993261.html]

...though on closer inspection 

By William Towle Posted Sunday 19th October 2008 09:59 GMT

the machine shown appears to have the Asus Easy Mode program running in a Keramik [KDE themed] window, so there are numerous possibilities (beyond my previous suggestions) as to what's going on.

There is an interesting "Eee Top hands on" video here,

http://www.eeepcnews.de/2008/10/16/video-asus-eee-top-hands-on/,

including Asus' Easy Mode for Windows and a rumour MicroSoft are to provide an equivalent of their own by the end of the year (there are alternatives "in the wild" too).

These are interesting times.