Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is) - Gizmodo Comments

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

skulldriveshaft — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:17:52 EDT

ASUS finally got some fresh air into the design departments.

skulldriveshaft

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

SuperCollider — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:13:30 EDT

@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.

SuperCollider

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

pipichua — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:02:52 EDT

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

pipichua

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Brian Sexton — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:52:00 EDT

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

Brian Sexton

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Rusdude — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:42:29 EDT

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

Rusdude

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Xenocide — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:41:04 EDT

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

Xenocide

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Cygni — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:36:03 EDT

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

Cygni

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

RomeoDude — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:27:26 EDT

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

RomeoDude

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

vote Obama — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:48:13 EDT

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

vote Obama

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

vote Obama — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:42:54 EDT

@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?

vote Obama

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

wwalkersd — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:14:06 EDT

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.

wwalkersd

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Samifumi — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:33:16 EDT

@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.

Samifumi

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

N@tedog — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:11:27 EDT

@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

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Sleeper_Service — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:08:16 EDT

@Cygni:

[img230.imageshack.us]

Sleeper_Service

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

bez_online — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:40:56 EDT

@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.

bez_online

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

ithcy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:17:11 EDT

"Please you actually irony"

ithcy

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

weatherman — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:13:34 EDT

@Cygni: was that English?

weatherman

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Brock — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:11:34 EDT

@Cygni: Only if you do the same.

Brock

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Brock — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:10:54 EDT

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.

Brock

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Cygni — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:09:12 EDT

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

Cygni

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Eruanno — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:46:09 EDT

@MeDe: The exact same words struck me as I looked at that picture. Or, actually it was more like "DUNNN-DUUUNNNN DUNNN DUUUUUUN... hey, that's a PS3... no it's not. Oh, okay. DUUUNNN DUUUNNN".

The "DUNN"s were due to me playing air guitar.

Eruanno

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Sockpuppet — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:32:24 EDT

@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"

Sockpuppet

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

bez_online — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:29:17 EDT

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

bez_online

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

packetsniffer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:07:29 EDT

@Sleeper_Service:
Bung?

packetsniffer

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Sleeper_Service — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:03:41 EDT

@Navin R Johnson:

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

Sleeper_Service

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

shawn_dude — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:59:52 EDT

@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.

shawn_dude

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Navin R Johnson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:44:59 EDT

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.

Navin R Johnson

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

scarbrtj — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:43:19 EDT

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

scarbrtj

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Sleeper_Service — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:34:34 EDT

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

Sleeper_Service

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Samifumi — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:32:28 EDT

MSRP?

Bob, I'll bid $500.

Samifumi

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

Darrone — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:28:06 EDT

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

Darrone

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

daftrok — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:25:57 EDT

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.

daftrok

Asus Essentio CS5110 Is World's Smallest PC (With Fully Embedded Discrete Graphics, That Is)

MeDe — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:25:24 EDT

It kinda looks like a PS3.

MeDe