We’d been wondering when ASUS’ NVIDIA Ion and optical drive packing Eee Box EB1501 w ould touch down on US soil, and lo and behold today it’s showing face for all those eager enough to pre-order. The device is available at Amazon for not a dollar less than $479 (though it does have free shipping), and if you’ll recall, the box is boasting a 1.6GHz Intel Atom dual core N330, NVIDIA Ion graphics, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive. All that and you get Windows 7 Home Premium rather than the ever-graying Windows XP. Of course, if you’re looking for all that in a mobile form factor you can always wait on the $499 A SUS Eee PC 1201N, but for set-top duty, feel fr ee to unleash the credit card right now.