I just bought one for my wife (she is a flight attendant) and this is the perfect travel laptop. I was almost sold on the Asus Eee, but dollar for dollar and feature for feature, this little gem STOMPS the Eee. To get the Asus with the same specs it would cost $300 more (or close to double) the $349 price tag (as of today's pricing). It's not a lightening machine, and the webcam is sub-par at best, but for basics like web surfing, working on documents, listening to music (via headphones, not the internal speakers), watching AVI movies, and other such things, this machine is excellent. We got the XP version with the 120GB hard drive as opposed to the Linux version with the 8GB SSD as it fits our needs much better. This also means that the storage expension slot is now a regular SD card reader giving it the ability to read 2 SD cards (it has a multi-reader too) leaving the 3 USB ports open. I love this little thing and have considered getting a second one for myself.
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I just bought one for my wife (she is a flight attendant) and this is the perfect travel laptop. I was almost sold on the Asus Eee, but dollar for dollar and feature for feature, this little gem STOMPS the Eee. To get the Asus with the same specs it would cost $300 more (or close to double) the $349 price tag (as of today's pricing). It's not a lightening machine, and the webcam is sub-par at best, but for basics like web surfing, working on documents, listening to music (via headphones, not the internal speakers), watching AVI movies, and other such things, this machine is excellent. We got the XP version with the 120GB hard drive as opposed to the Linux version with the 8GB SSD as it fits our needs much better. This also means that the storage expension slot is now a regular SD card reader giving it the ability to read 2 SD cards (it has a multi-reader too) leaving the 3 USB ports open. I love this little thing and have considered getting a second one for myself.