This subject may be a bit off-topic for our site, but I think we have to talk about this, because Asustek is one of the largest hardware manufacturers on the planet, with almost 100,000 employees all over the world. The device advertised using the slogan "Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play", the ASUS Eee PC subnotebook, to be more precise, proved to be a good move from the Taiwanese company, and now they are planning an entire line of Eee computers...

"It all started with a small, cheap and interesting subnotebook" - maybe this is going to be one of the first lines in the story of the Eee family to be written in a possible future, if things go well. If not, it's going to end with the subnotebook and its three followers - the desktop, the HDTV and the all-in-one PC.

First of all, the ASUS E-DT, or simply Eee DT is the next product of the Eee family to hit the market, and its target is to compete with small and cheap desktop PCs similar to the Mac Mini. Based on an Intel Celeron CPU, the computer should be priced somewhere between $200-$300 (the cheaper, the better, especially since there's a huge market to be exploited in emerging countries). This computer will use Linux and will be sold without a monitor.

The ASUS E-Monitor will have a 19-inch or 21-inch screen, should incorporate a TV-tuner, and is expected to arrive in September, for a price below $500, making it an interesting alternative to Apple's iMac or Dell's XPS One. Well, there may be a little problem here - the E-Monitor will also use Linux, and some users may keep away from it because of that...

At last, we have the Eee HDTV, a 42-inch LCD HDTV coming with a built-in PC based on...yeah, you got it - Linux! While this one is also expected to pop up in September, there is no additional information about it, but let's hope they are going to make it full HD-capable.

In the last months, I had a lot of discussions with many people about computer upgrades and the fact that currently, most users have much more processing power at their disposal than they need, and Asustek seems to have the same opinion but, unlike me, they have the power to make things right.

Last November, Jonney Shih, Asustek's CEO, said "Traditional PCs are too powerful, no matter in the home or office; we are seeing quad-core rising with octo-core coming in the near future, and the more cores in a CPU, the more memory the system needs. Is all this really necessary? With the Eee PC we decided to go back to basics, to bring the focus to just functions and reasonable price levels.".

These being said, I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope that, a year from now, the Eee PC will be the elder member of a big and happy family(if I didn't mention it so far, I will do it now - I just love the Eee PC)!