Eee Keyboard in the Flesh

[Chris Gohlke]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/hands-on-with-asus-eee-keyboard/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/...s-eee-keyboard/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"The 5-inch, 800 x 480 touchpad was looking mighty fine, and the Atom N270 within seemed plenty powerful. It's a touch hard to believe that ASUS was able to shove a 16GB SSD, 1GB of RAM, WiFi and Bluetooth modules, VGA / HDMI ouputs and a few USB 2.0 ports within a slim, elegant keyboard, but somehow or another it did."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1236730150.usr10.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>Pretty cool.&nbsp; Reminisent of really old school computers, like the Commodore 64.&nbsp; Of course they didn't sport a built in touch screen!</p>

[Phronetix]

It's a technical achievement.

But, it seems to miss the point ergonomically. Is there a second monitor that is supposed to be attached? What sort of usefulness could one get out of this set up?

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

Yes, it's meant to be attached to a monitor. In fact it sports wireless HDMI so it's also positioned as the ultimate remote.

[Jason Dunn]

Pretty sweet technology...but I'm not sure where/how I'd use it. :)