Shuttle's Eee Top rival to debut in April for US$599

12.01.2009
Taiwanese PC maker Shuttle plans to start selling its -rival, the X50 all-in-one touchscreen desktop PC, in the U.S. in early April for around US$599 with Microsoft Windows XP installed, company representatives said Sunday.

The company also plans to sell a US$499 version of the X50 with no OS installed.

The X50 could end up being the best touchscreen all-in-one PC launched in the U.S. in the first half of this year in terms of price for performance.

The X50, which has a 15.6-inch touchscreen, will be among the first all-in-one devices launched with Intel's dual-core Atom microprocessor on board. Other all-in-one PCs of similar size are going to launch with single core Atom microprocessors.

Asustek's , for example, is also a 15.6-inch all-in-one device but comes with just a single core Atom microprocessor as well as a nearly identical price tag of around US$600.

Micro-Star International (MSI), which plans to launch a family of all-in-one PCs under the name, will also market a 15.6-inch screen device with the single core Atom, the NetOn AE1600, though pricing information was not immediately available.