If you look hard enough you can see that it is just an iMac that has been cropped at the bezel and a new BT Wireless Keyboard..... nice concept though. I'd buy it if it were real.

OK MacBoi... settle down. You are a prime example of why Mac users have a bad name. You are on a hair-trigger... it's scary.

This is just getting ridiculous people! Mary Lou has stated publically that her company is commercialising the same advances in technology that she brought to OLPC "in an effort to make it widespread and thus make it cheaper to build the OLPC". There is an official interview over at Groklaw for anyone that cares to actually read the fact.

Engadget I am disappointed. This is just hype and FUD on your part. Calling it a "competitor" to the OLPC is just "grand-standing" and sensationalising something without even reading up about it.

Here is the link for anyone that actually knows how to read: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080107182525297

I apologise if another commentor on this board has already pointed out Engadgets complete lack of respect for the truth, but I haven't read any of the comments, I was so angry I just went straight to comenting myself.... somthing I usually don't do.

Maemo and Moblin are built on the same UI framework, called Hildon. Intel/Ubuntu et al. weren't satisfied with Maemo as a whole, so they took the UI specification and built moblin around it (www.moblin.org). I am guessing that is why there are similarities between the two platforms.

I think that they would be able to put a lower price on the battery... after all they did get a low price on the laptop itself ;)

Finally an additional battery! I have been dying of late, because the initial battery life is actually quite poor on the Eee. But believe me, the short battery life hasn't stopped me from using it 24/7 :P

As for touch-typing: well I recently changes locale and couldn't take my desktop with me. The only PC I had was my shiny new EeePC, so I used that as my main machine. After using it exclusively for about a month and a half I have to say that the keyboard is quite manageable. I can type just as well on the Eee as I can on a normal keyboard.

I love my Eee :P