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Yes, it does, but I may tell you what I miss:

1. The device has a glidepad. It would be great to have an option to buy it with a trackpoint instead. Furthermore, I miss the middle mouse button which is sooo important if you want to run your UNIX / Linux GUI stuff in an adequate manner.

http://www.cnet.co.uk/i/c/rv/e/laptops/asus/eee_pc-901/story_2.jpg

2. Is a german keyboard layout available, too? Can the "Windows" keys be removed? :-)

http://www.trustedreviews.com/images/article/inline/7344-IMG3341s.j...

It really seems to be a nice device, worth contributing to my development hardware, especially when visiting customers - a cool portable computer to demonstrate things, for diagnostics and for inputting source code that comes to your mind when you're not at home.

If I see it correctly, the device would be approx. 500 Euro in Germany (I didn't check its availability in fact) - still too much money for me. But I may continue dreaming.

Shouldn't pressing in the middle of both buttons (e.i. pressing both at the same time) do the middle button trick?


Sure, the version they'll sell in Germany will have German keyboard layout, why wouldn't it?


The announced price was 400 Euro. We'll see once it's available if demand doesn't push the price up.

I'm also really waiting for such device with a Trackpoint...yes, touchpad vs. trackpoint comes down to personal preference, but:
a) even when ones preference is a touchpad, it's harder to use the smaller it gets...which brings us to point
b) it's perfectly suited for such size-constrained machines

Here's hoping Lenovo will do something about it...

Yes, it does, but I may tell you what I miss:

1. The device has a glidepad. It would be great to have an option to buy it with a trackpoint instead. Furthermore, I miss the middle mouse button which is sooo important if you want to run your UNIX / Linux GUI stuff in an adequate manner.

http://www.cnet.co.uk/i/c/rv/e/laptops/asus/eee_pc-901/story_2.jpg "

Seriously, ever since I've been using a Thinkpad (bit worn-out X40), I cannot imagine anyone would want to put up with a laptop without a trackpoint-style pointing device.

But that may also be because the Thinkpads have something else going for it, i.e. the best three "mouse" buttons ever designed on laptops. No to mention the keyboard that doesn't flex like most other crap laptop keyboards do.
If they'd put that on the Eee, that would be smart.

I know, it takes most people at least five minutes to get used to a trackpoint, that's too much for most of use.



In the Hague there's a store that's going to sell it for 400 (the Linux version, Dutch warranty).
I'm thinking of getting my brother one, or the MSI wind, depending on which one of them is the first to be available with a *really* efficient chip. IMHO the goal that any tiny laptop makes should have is 24 hour battery life plus the ability to charge the battery manually if necessary (at the gym, for instance).

I mean, say you're on a train to the south of France and you want to work for hours, then most laptops are still a joke when it comes to battery life.
It can be done, and it will be done, eventually.

If you don't mind gaps in your keyboard ;o)