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We've already seen the EeeBOX EB1501 on its base.
We can also lay it down flat, like any standard Box,
with the ports and connectors accessible at the back.
The antenna can be turned upwards, it can thus be used correctly.
It's quite practical and it can easily be put beneath a screen or next to it.
It is adviced to use it in that direction rather than in the other one,
simply to be able to use this air hole that will remove the hot air.
Let's open the device now, to see how it is designed inside.
It's very easy to open, you just need to open the screws at the back.
However, I don't know if opening them is approved by Asus.
Once all the screws are removed, we can start opening the device.
Go steadily, but in fact, there isn't any difficulty.
Here is the device totally opened,
and we can see some quite interesting stuffs.
First of all, here is the Ion chipset.
Then the dual-core Atom 330.
We've got a heat pipe which starts here
and goes from the chipset to the processor.
Then, it goes to small fins that will enable to cool down the heat carried by the heat pipe.
There's little metal, while I was expecting a bigger heat dissipater.
The idea is here to remove the heat and to ventilate it directly,
and not to stock it inside the machine.
There's almost no radiator in the device.
We've got here two memory modules
which enable to activate the dual-channel mode of the Ion chipset.
We've also got the mini-PCI card, which will be hard to change.
And we can also notice that there's just one antenna,
but a second cable port is present,
so it's possible to add an antenna somewhere else.
You've got the 5400 rpm 250-GB hard drive,
an usual card reader and the ports and connectors we already know...
The big fan is placed here, and it's not in direct contact with any of the two heating components.
To close the device, it's quite simple:
you just have to press,
and the device is ready to be screwed back on.