Continuing our CES 2009 coverage tonight, our focus shifts to ASUS which had a fairly large booth in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. While ASUS certainly carries products in a wide array of categories, it owes much of its success in 2008 to the Eee PC line of netbook PCs. Over at NetbookTech, we covered their latest announcements on the netbook front which basically boiled down to new tablet-style netbook systems – the 8.9 inch Eee PC T91 and 10 inch Eee PC T101.  You’ll also find a digital stills of their Eee PC product line here (and boy there are a lot of models now).

On the desktop front, ASUS introduced their first touch-enabled all-in-one PC – the Eee Top ET1602 – at CES 2009.  The system features an Intel Atom processor, a 15.6 inch touch-screen display, a built-in hard drive, and of course, Windows XP Home Edition.

The full specs include:

• 15.6 inch 16:9 widescreen touch-screen display
• Windows XP Home OS
• Intel Atom N270 processor
• Intel 945GSE + ICH7 chipset
• 1GB RAM
• 160GB SATAII 5400 RPM HDD
• Integrated graphics
• Gigabit Ethernet
• 802.11 n
• 4 watt stereo speakers
• SRS Premium Sound System
• HD audio chip
• 2 x USB 2.0 ports
• card reader
• 3 audio ports for 5.1 channel sound

Here are pictures of the ET1602. From the top (with the keyboard tucked away behind the panel):

A close-up of the customized ASUS user interface:

It certainly appears this will be the year of the inexpensive all-in-one PC. Sure would love to install Windows 7 on these machines!

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