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With the impending release of the Eee Top, its easy to forget about Asus’s other Eee desktop offer, the Eee Box.  It carries about the same specs as the Eee PC, but the case is built as a standard computer, about the size of an tv.  Actually, with the new features that are being added to the Eee box, it is likely to replace the tv you may or may not have.

The new updates to the Eee box will essentially turn it into a home theater machine that can double as a PC, or the other way around.  The new features will come in two new models, the B204 and B206.  Possibly the biggest feature for the models is the inclusion of a Radeon HD 3400 GPU rather than simple integrated graphics. 

This will make it much easier to decode HD video on the machines for use in a home theater system.  To connect it to a home theater system, the new models have HDMI outputs so it can easily be connected to most any HDTVs.  The B204 will also have Bluetooth so if you do use it in a home theater there are no wires to trip over with the keyboard and mouse. 

The rest of the specs are the standard netbook/nettop fares with a 160 GB hard drive.  Asus hasn’t mentioned anything about price or release dates yet, but I’m hopeful that the price won’t be too much.  It would be nice to test out a computer media center in such a small package, especially one that is much more open than the tv.  The Eee box models will run Windows XP out of the box and use Eee Cinema for a media browser, but it shouldn’t be too hard to replace it with Ubuntu and Boxee if you have a license for it.

Read [Electronista]