Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Dec 2007 17:46 UTC, submitted by Steve Emms
A review of the Asus EeePC. It concludes: "The Eee PC may be targeted at children and students, but it should also entice anyone needing a compact, low cost, yet fully functional PC. It is featherweight, far easier to use than a Windows machine, starts up three times faster, and costs about a quarter of anything in its weight class."
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actually I would've preferred they made it smaller again, lose the webcam, maybe even a bit less of everything except the size of the keyboard and have it cheaper still...but then I'm thinking more along the lines of a super-pda that runs a full linux distro. 
Well they do have the 4G Surf, which is $50 bucks less, but lacks the webcam and has a smaller battery. Then they have the 2G versions, but I dunno pricing or specs on those.
I'm hoping for the next gen models which reportedly will have the Merom processors, no fan, and use 2/3 of the power. Should give a nice boost in battery life. Then I'll sell mine and buy that
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2007-08-11
Anyone wanting a larger screen must also realise that this will also require a larger battery and all of this costs money.
One of the reasons for the small screen was to conserve battery power, since the screen is probably the single biggest power consumer in the whole unit.
It would be great to have x and y feature just like other laptops but I think people are forgetting that if it did have all the features of other laptops, it would then be the same price as all the other laptops.
Its an ultra-low-cost laptop, so take it or leave it.
I'll be buying one as soon as the budget allows!
actually I would've preferred they made it smaller again, lose the webcam, maybe even a bit less of everything except the size of the keyboard and have it cheaper still...but then I'm thinking more along the lines of a super-pda that runs a full linux distro.