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Answer» The good folks over at ASUS have sent over the P5E3 Deluxe, which is based upon Intel's new X38 Chipset and continues in the usual ASUS fashion of pushing new (and often unexpected) innovations onto the motherboard. Without spoiling the review of this motherboard that will be published shortly, the ASUS P5E3 Deluxe is one of the most innovative motherboards we have SEEN to date and it packs one very exciting and unusual feature. Embedded onto the P5E3 Deluxe is a Linux environment that features a Firefox-rebranded web browser and the Skype VoIP client! WITHIN five seconds of turning on this $360 USD gaming/enthusiast motherboard, you can be USING Linux and surfing the Internet. On this motherboard the feature is known as ASUS Express Gate, which is powered by something called SplashTop. SplashTop is an instant-on Linux desktop being created by DeviceVM. SplashTop isn't even launching for a few more days (October 10), but in this article we have more details on this embedded Linux environment as well as screenshots and our thoughts with what will hopefully come next for this Linux environment. Link Video on YouTube of Express gateNice. I wish intel would add that feature to their motherboards. I want one! One day, all motherboards will be like this. I see it is advertised in the UK for £200 UKP (well £199.48 inc VAT). If it was half that price I would definitely say it'll be my next motherboard. Quote it would be very nice if SplashTop would support mounting connected storage devices WHETHER it be USB or SATA, which would make this environment especially handy for backup purposes as well as system recovery. Well, having just run Norton Ghost 8 under Windows XP MiniPE off a 1 GB pendrive to restore a Ghost image (stored on my USB external HDD) of my XP install I can say "aye" to that, it would be handy to have the functionality built-in. handy but not essential I suppose. BIG shout goin' out to Norton Ghost there... (I tried the XP SP3 beta build 3205 that's floating around - my advice - DON'T!) |
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