With its 800x480 resolution screen, the slim, aluminum-encased Eee Keyboard PC can be used as standalone computer. But Asus expects most users of the Wi-Fi enabled computer to hook it up to an external monitor or television, allowing users to quickly turn any screen in the house into a Web surfing station or multimedia center.

First announced at International CES in January, Asus also had the 2-pound Keyboard PC on display at the CeBIT trade show earlier this month, according to a posted this week by gadget blog, UMPCportal.com. that the Keyboard PC will arrive in June.

Asus trailblazed netbooks in the fall of 2007 with its original Eee PC netbook. Since then, it has launched a wide variety of Eee netbook models, as well as such as its Mac Mini-like Eee Box and its .

The Keyboard PC is Asus' latest, most creative experiment in net-top, or small desktop PCs. Like its netbook and net-top Eees, the Keyboard PC will be powered by an Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz processor. It will come with 1GB of RAM and either 16GB or 32GB of solid-state disk storage.

It will run Windows XP Home Edition and will come with wireless 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity. It sports flat wide keys, similar to Apple Inc.'s MacBook Pro, and appears, according to UMPCportal.com's video, to be able to run just on battery power, like a notebook computer.