It kinda looks like a PS3.

Meh, I still think HP's s3400t is better:
[www.shopping.hp.com]

13.89"(L) x 4.21"(W) x 10.87"(H)
180 watts

And it actually lets you have a real video card and you can add a Blu ray/HD DVD player for 200 bucks.

@MeDe: Like a PS3 and a MyBook bumped uglies.

MSRP?

Bob, I'll bid $500.

Unless it's better than an 8600GM it's pointless as you could just bung a notebook in there.

Looks like it'll have an 8600GT 256MB.

Who cares how big your desktop computer is? If your worried about size, go with a laptop. Cheap and low power, sure. Room for extra hard disks, sure.

Size? meh.

@Darrone: ROFL! Good one.

If it's sub-$500 with a core 2 duo it would make a great mythTV box. Small, slick, and quiet.

Speaking of myBook... would be kinda cool to mod a small pc into one of the myBook cases.

@Navin R Johnson:

It kind of matters when you're bunging it under the telly.

@Sleeper_Service:
Bung?

@packetsniffer: British colloquialism. Bung (verb) = place (verb) in this instance.

@packetsniffer: Yes, to bung; From the online freedictionary:

bung (bng):

1. A stopper especially for the hole through which a cask, keg, or barrel is filled or emptied.
2. A bunghole.
tr.v. bunged, bung·ing, bungs
1. To close with or as if with a cork or stopper.
2. Informal To injure or damage: fell on skis and bunged up my leg.
3. Chiefly British To fling; toss: "The Hungarian director bungs star Klaus Maria Brandauer once more into the breaches of past Teuton history" Nigel Andrews.

I suspect Sleeper_Service meant the verb "To fling", not the noun "bunghole"

Please you actually English and not whatever terrible language is passed as English in England these days. Thanks.

This looks really nice. I tried to build a DIY solution just like this a couple months ago but couldn't find a case that pulled it all together the way I wanted in the size I wanted. The so-called "Media Center" cases are all ginormous.

This would make a great little DVD/Blu-Ray player, media server, BitTorrent client, and PC-on-the-TV gaming box. You couldn't play the cutting edge FPS games, but anything that's not too graphics intensive (like Sins of a Solar Empire) or a couple years old (Doom 3) will play fine.

@Cygni: Only if you do the same.

@Cygni: was that English?

"Please you actually irony"

@Cygni: No more terrible than your grammar, dude! If you think the colloquialisms are bad - try Cockney rhyming slang (www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk); it will blow your mind. Please you take more English classes. Thanks.

@Cygni:

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@Samifumi:
$500?!?! You're high bro. Their slimline MINUS integrated graphics or Blu-ray starts at $500. I'd expect around $700 for this with Blu-ray.

@N@tedog: Strategy, homes. I have to play it safe and underbid. Otherwise, some schmuck comes along and bids $1 and I'm hosed.

Also, we havent really seen any affirmative specs. It's still up in the air what you get as a base and what your upgrade options will be.

Detailed specs at the ASUS site here:

This looks to be a great bookshelf HTPC: Core 2 Duo, HDMI, 7.1, GigE, 802.11n, IR receiver, Bluetooth, Blu-Ray drive, and it's the size of a book. No price info, though.

@daftrok: thanks for the heads up - I am planning on getting something like this soon.

is there a PC out there with some serious audio output for speakers?

@Cygni: speak kindly quietly better man than knows badly. Please

Kinda reminds me of my Acer minitower, though the embedded graphics make it way more tempting...

Wow, I didnt think that many people would fall for my bad troll... thats pretty shocking.

If only I could use it as a Media Center Extender, sigh.

Here's the link to the press-release with all the detailed specs: [www.asus.com]

@daftrok: Love crapware and restoration partitions, do you?

...my acer L310 does the job...

@daftrok: Hey, thanks! I hadn't heard of that, and as much as I avoid everything HP it's pretty much exactly what I'm looking for. I can't wait any longer for this Asus or the EP20 and I don't think the Mac Mini will support a decent video card.

ASUS finally got some fresh air into the design departments.