Sheesh - did everyone lose 1/2 their braincells and forget about the millions of used and refurbished PIII and PIV laptops floating around for 1/2 the price of this thing with all the power, bigger screen, bigger drives, DVD/CD-RW etc. etc.?
What your missing, Tintin, is that this an ultra-portable. And although all other ultra-portables are much more powerful than this one, the EEE has two things going for it: 1) it is much lighter than the rest, making it a true "lap"top, and 2) much cheaper. All other ultraportables start at thousands of dollars, this one at hundreds. So if you don't need the extra power, the EEE is the first ultra-portable you can buy this cheap.
In November another cheap ultra-portable will become available to the citizens of the USA and Canada, OLPC's XO.
The phone has 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, which do the job reasonably well, though the Anna interface will likely leave something to be desired for many smartphone users.
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Sheesh - did everyone lose 1/2 their braincells and forget about the millions of used and refurbished PIII and PIV laptops floating around for 1/2 the price of this thing with all the power, bigger screen, bigger drives, DVD/CD-RW etc. etc.?
What am I missing?
Portability is the key.
The smaller screen and overall size of the Eee is a plus, buddy.
marketing?
What your missing, Tintin, is that this an ultra-portable. And although all other ultra-portables are much more powerful than this one, the EEE has two things going for it: 1) it is much lighter than the rest, making it a true "lap"top, and 2) much cheaper. All other ultraportables start at thousands of dollars, this one at hundreds. So if you don't need the extra power, the EEE is the first ultra-portable you can buy this cheap.
In November another cheap ultra-portable will become available to the citizens of the USA and Canada, OLPC's XO.