New "EEE" super-portable laptop $199

[Matt Graham]

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."

<hat type="Devil's Advocate,tinfoil">
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."
</hat>

> 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.

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