It is a relatively cheap way to get touch screen technology. I don't see gamers standing in line for this baby, but it has a lot of potential. 

It could be the perfect kitchen computer. Put it in the lobby for visitors. It is perfect for casual use; browsing the internet and email. Paired with a wireless keyboard and mouse, it could be set any where.



For those who don't know, Asus Express Gate is a light Linux OS embedded in a Flash Memory Chip in the Motherboard, so you can access it almost instantly to do basic functionality (web, mail, music)

The future without paid OS is coming.

The Asus EMo.
Does it come in black?

So it's slow with comparatively little memory and hard disk space, plus a fiddly small screen and overpriced by well over 100 quid.

Hold me back.. Another overpriced piece of kit in a recession is exactly what everyone needs..

This is called resume from hibernate on M$ products. XP and Vista both are able to resume from hibernation within 5-10 seconds depending on the amount of RAM that was saved to HDD in the first place. IMHO you cannot wake anything up from total powerless state faster than it takes to read the RAM content from some form of non-volatile memory device.

I've got an a computer that is "virtually" instant on.
And it is run entirely on Microsoft product!

It is Vista base level. Next, it runs Virtual PC 2004. That runs Windows 2000. But, when I last booted up Windows 2000 I told it "Save State". So then, when I restart Windows 2000, it restarts from Saved State... and startup is "virtually" immediate.

Too bad Microsoft or some uther software entrepreneur coudn't think up a way to do this apart from Virtual PC. Oh wait. My laptop does something almost exactly the same. It is called "wake" from "sleep" state.

Huh!
Oh well too bad nobody in the world cares about instant on, seems like it would be a simple problem to resolve. Must be no market for it then.

quote "Other features include six USB ports, Gigabit ethernet, 802.11b/g/n networking, a card reader, webcam and mike "

What does he look like, as my sister has been single for a while. Mike could be just the thing she needs

(for all those that don't understand humour, yes there is a typo they ment mic)