We are so close to getting my perfect dream machine, yet the recent slew of these devices fall too far short, with the OLPC being the closest to being my dream machine (the tiny keyboard is my biggest complaint and the rubber bumpers that have already started to come off mine is other big con). All of these devices should have a low-watt fanless processor that is housed behind the monitor so your legs don't get burnt. A sunlight readable display with a high resolution like the OLPC should also be standard in these devices since I could see people using them to blog outdoors. A tablet mode is also important. And the one thing that I have not seen in any of these devices (particularly the SSD only devices like the EEE) is a to be able to access the motherboard easily so that you could upgrade the onboard flash storage by simply swapping out SDHC as higher capcity units become available. I hate having to tie up my one SDHC slot on my OLPC when I use it to boot alternate OS's when it probably would have been easy to put another SDHC somewhere on the motherboard instead of soldering the measly 1 gb of storage that comes with it to the motherboard.
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We are so close to getting my perfect dream machine, yet the recent slew of these devices fall too far short, with the OLPC being the closest to being my dream machine (the tiny keyboard is my biggest complaint and the rubber bumpers that have already started to come off mine is other big con). All of these devices should have a low-watt fanless processor that is housed behind the monitor so your legs don't get burnt. A sunlight readable display with a high resolution like the OLPC should also be standard in these devices since I could see people using them to blog outdoors. A tablet mode is also important. And the one thing that I have not seen in any of these devices (particularly the SSD only devices like the EEE) is a to be able to access the motherboard easily so that you could upgrade the onboard flash storage by simply swapping out SDHC as higher capcity units become available. I hate having to tie up my one SDHC slot on my OLPC when I use it to boot alternate OS's when it probably would have been easy to put another SDHC somewhere on the motherboard instead of soldering the measly 1 gb of storage that comes with it to the motherboard.