Related topics  Asus Eee Box Atom-based desktop mini PC  Small,
Cheap Computers aren't just laptops, you know  The Eee Box's
sides sport a grid textures that's spoiled only by the profusion
of stickers Asus feels it has to apply in addition to the ones
Microsoft and Intel's marketing dollars force it to fit. The
bottom ten per cent of each side is a grille, partly for cooling
but mostly for styling - there are real cooling vents on the top
and bottom of the machine.  Asus Eee Box  Typical SCC port
array... but with DVI instead of VGA  You can lay the Eee Box
flat on its side, though Asus advises against this. Asus bundles
a screw-on stand that orients the computer upright and raised
slightly at the front, and which gives it a Nintendo Wii-like
quality, especially with the white version of the PC. Don't like
the stand? Tough luck, because there's a plastic nodule on the
bottom that prevents it being mounted upright without the stand.
You'd be daft to do so anyway - you'd block the main air vents.
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