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While the newest member of the Asus Eee Family (the Waltons of PC brands) may not be quite as mobile as a Netbook, it sure is interesting. What had been originally leaked as the Eee Monitor is now being released as the Eee Top.

This all in one unit features 15.9-inch touchscreen, Microsoft Windows XP and a 1.6GHz Atom along with sleep styling and some interesting surprises, such as what is apparently a Denon sound system if one can read the logos right. Two versions of the Eee top are currently being touted by Asus, the ET1603 and the ET1602.

The ET1603 is the high end unit with an ATI HD3450 graphics card and, somewhat unusually for a desktop PC, a battery. This is likely to support the fact that Asus is using the fact that the unit can easily be picked up and carried to any room of your house as a major (and possibly quite effective) marketing point. The ET1602 is the lower end version without a specialized graphics card or battery.

The specs for both models include a 160G HD, 1G byte of DRAM, Wi-Fi 802.11n and a 1.3-megapixel Web cam.

From the point the Eee Monitor was first leaked, the iMac comparisons have run rampant, but when you consider that iMacs run 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duos with 20-inch or 24-inch screen, this is one comparison that is only skin deep. However, as a second (or third) home desktop, with the ability to be moved around (Media Center Supercontroller, anyone?) the Eee Top could be a great choice. No word yet on price or release date.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).