Topic: Chrome box

[Nemesis]

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Plenty of vendors offer Chromebooks, but if mobility isn't your bag, Asus has announced a compact Chrome OS desktop at a price that's hard to beat.

Asus isn't the first company to offer Chrome OS in a desktop form factor. That would be Samsung, which launched the original Chromebox in 2012. But vendors have shied away from the design since then, preferring to ship all-in-one Chromebook laptops instead.

The problem with that earlier Chromebox was that it was hard to see who its intended audience was. It had a slow processor, and for a general-purpose PC it lacked a lot of things that consumers have come to expect from their Windows or OS X machines.

Asus seems to have taken that lesson to heart, and rather than pitching its new Chromebox as a PC replacement, it's marketing it as an easy-to-use, low-maintenance web terminal that doubles as a media device that can handle 4K ultra-high definition video.

[TAnimaL]

A little interesting; I haven't been looking at chromeboxes, but I have been using the chromecast dongle device the last month and been liking it - quick and easy for getting netflix and youtube on any hdmi monitor. There'd be a lot more apps available for this Asus than the chromecast has, but the price is still a bit "high" for my tastes. Still, it seems like a market out there for something like this.