ASUS Takes the Mini PC to a Mighty Level with Essentio CS5110

re: ASUS Takes the Mini PC to a Mighty Level with Essentio CS5110

chrisl — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:18:42 GMT

No idea on the price, but one key reason you might not want it is expandability. I'm not sure to what level the case is custom or not, so it could run into issues like the HP Z series a few years ago where upgrades were near impossible.

re: ASUS Takes the Mini PC to a Mighty Level with Essentio CS5110

Eric Atkins — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:19:09 GMT

Assuming the price was the same, should I go with this or the HP Slimline?

re: ASUS Takes the Mini PC to a Mighty Level with Essentio CS5110

Matt — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:27:41 GMT

oops I see it has a mobile GeForce 8600 integrated into it. So it makes my G35 video acceleration gripes moot.

re: ASUS Takes the Mini PC to a Mighty Level with Essentio CS5110

Matt — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:06:08 GMT

Since this is a G35 based product it has next to zero acceleration for next generation codecs, you'll need a pretty beefy CPU for H.264 decoding. If this were based on the upcoming G45 it would be even better. Pretty slick though.

re: ASUS Takes the Mini PC to a Mighty Level with Essentio CS5110

Ryan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:51:30 GMT

Too bad you can't plug a Cablecard into it...

re: ASUS Takes the Mini PC to a Mighty Level with Essentio CS5110

Wayne — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:17:15 GMT

Any idea how much this will cost? The only thing missing on the back is an eSATA connector. It would be great to use this as an extender - oh wait, Vista doesn't have software extender functionality.