After a long battle with technology, Josef Lowder wrote: > Has everyone seen the new "EEE" super-portable laptop recently > announced by ASUS? At only $199, this should shake up the computer world as > it will be exclusively LINUX with built in wireless and pre-installed > Firefox and the complete Open Office suite and all Linux applications to do > everything. > > Of course this great price is only possible because there is no > $100 per unit Microsoft "tax" and no $300+ cost for M$ "office." And the herds of consumers will say, "That can't possibly be a real computer. It doesn't cost enough. I can't buy that, everybody will think I'm poor! And will it play World of DoomCraft 5? No? Screw it, I'm getting a Dull with Vista on it." > It includes: 10/100 Mbps Ethernet; 56K modem, WLAN: WiFi 802.11b/g, > Intel UMA 512MB, DDR2-400, 4/8/16GB data storage, 300K pixel video > camera, Hi-Definition Audio CODEC, built-in stereo speakers & microphone. Decent hardware specs for such a low price. > http://www.upquick.com/eee3.jpg > Notice the EEE's size compared to the mac i-book that it sits on > in that last image. That keyboard looks too small to be comfortable for a standard adult. Hard to tell from the picture though. A long time back, I tried to use a smaller-than-normal Vaio, and I got severe hand cramp from trying to type on it. Oh well. -- Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today -- I think he's from the CIA. There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss