14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that the IT market has finally started to see news flowing out of Hannover, Germany, as various IT companies have allowed CeBIT visitors to view their products, like a certain couple of ASUS nettops.
The Mobile World Congress 2011 expo (MWC 2011) only had tablets to show as far as the PC market went, as most news was on mobile devices, like smartphones and the like.
CeBIT is consumer and PC-oriented, however, so companies from around the world stepped up and presented various things.
ASUS, of course, being a major supplier of PCs and hardware components, has a full set of things to show.
Among them, as reported by Notebook Italia, is a pair of Eee Box nettops, otherwise known as small form factor, entry-level desktop personal computers.
The models in question are the Eee Box EB1020 and EB1021, both powered by AMD's now well known Fusion micro architecture, the Brazos platform in this case.
The EB1021, as one would expect, is the more powerful of the two, being built around the dual-core E-350 APU (accelerated processing unit).
Said APU has a frequency of 1.6 GHz and the built-in Radeon HD 6310 graphics. The nettop also boasts a hard disc drive of 250 GB and 2 GB of RAM, plus USB 3.0.
Meanwhile, the EB1020 has the C-50 dual-core chip at its heart. Whose own speed is just 1 GHz and the integrated GPU is Radeon HD 6250.
The hard disk drive has the same capacity as the one above, but USB 3.0 is absent, the product making do with several USB 2.0 connectors instead.
The EB1021 and EB1020 should start selling by the second quarter and black and white versions. No prices were given, but they will no doubt be quite accessible, considering how AMD-based machines always do seam to bend more towards the affordable side of the market.