Certain NVIDIA’s Ion 2 is all a rage right rightaway, though ASUS still has a few tricks left in store for the progenitor nettop GPU. A EeeBox EB1501U sports the typical nettop processor — in this box, a comparison Diamondville Intel Atom 330 dual core — with Ion Asingle, and as an combined reward, there’s USB 3.0 support. Also under a metalcover? A 2.5-inch, 320GB HDD, DVD expostulate, as well as 802.11b/g/n WiFi. As for a alternative home theater PERSONALCOMPUTER box, a EeeMedia EM0501 isn’t utterly as exciting — only the 800MHz Samsung ARM processor, a accumulation of codec supports, and HDMI out. Still, since history, it’s the flattering solid further. Pricing as well as availability? Your theory is as great as ours for rightaway. Suffer the cinema for a time being. ASUS EB1501U hands-on

ASUS EM0501 hands-on