ASUS have gone with a safe yet trendy glossy piano black finish in a grid pattern on its side panels. The top and bottom of the Eee Box features air vents to ensure that the Eee Box stays as cool as possible.

Hidden behind the plastic door of the Eee Box are the power button, SD/MemoryStick card slot, two USB ports and the microphone and earphone sockets. One major point of concern is that we could easily remove the plastic door. Whether this was a deliberate design decision by ASUS or an unintentional move, either way it detracts from the overall feel of the Eee Box.

Rear connectivity is provided in the form of a DVI port, an additional two USB ports and an external antenna mount that is used in conjunction with the 802.11n wireless connectivity.

Along with the Intel Atom processor running at 1.6GHz is a lackluster 1GB of memory. The Eee Box is no powerhouse and was made specifically for light tasks such as Internet surfing and media viewing.

There's 80GB of hard drive space that uses a standard 2.5-inch hard drive which isn't very much considering the price of hard drives have come down so much. The good news is that the hard drive is user-upgradeable with very little effort required on your part. All that's stopping you from upgrading is an "Eee Box" sticker and a few screws.

Just like its cousin, the Eee PC, the Eee Box lacks a DVD±RW drive. While this has been a common piece of hardware that has been omitted from all netbooks, having it left off the Eee Box is a potential deal breaker with heavy reliance still on DVD's and CD's as a storage format. You could get an external DVD±RW drive but that would just make the overall cost of the Eee Box more than it really should be. This ultimately means that to access your data it has to be saved on a USB flash drive, an SD or MemoryStick card or uploaded to your network.