<quote who="Rev Simon Rumble"> > As for the screen being too small, Jeff I think that's kinda the point. > It's meant to be ultra-portable, like the old Toshiba Librettos.
I'm all for ultra-portable -- my laptop preferences are restricted to 12" or 13" because I travel so much. I plug in to a 24" screen at home. :-) I think 7" is too much of a tradeoff. They can easily fit a 10" screen on the sucker, which would be significantly better for all use cases. They'll ship one soon enough. I think this ends up being a misbalanced product, like those OQO machines. The Eee is *almost* a laptop, but the screen sucks, and it's not powerful enough to be comfortable... but the form factor is really not interestingly different enough to warrant those tradeoffs. It doesn't suit any use other than average laptop use cases, and my laptop has the right balance of size, cost and power (and you can get similarly powerful at a lower price). The Eee is certainly more powerful than a PDA, but way too big. It doesn't even attempt UMPC or tablet functionality. So what does it have going for it? It's, uh, cheap. And the usefulness of the product reflects that. That's about it. :-) - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 "It doesn't matter if it is good, it only matters if it rocks." - Tenacious D, Rock Your Socks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
