I was drooling for the Asus eee until I got the 150$ Nokia 770 (and NEC MobilePro 800c) with touchscreen. Not I wouldn't buy anything subnotebook that don't have a touchscreen.

also I wouldn't buy anything that can't run Linux. Sorry but no windows Mobile for me. (Linux make devices be timeless as even a win98 era laptop can run linux and make the then unsuported usb port usable.)

So yes the cloudbook is on my purchase list for next year.

About the Eee's Solid state hard drive : I can get a large compact flash card and adapter to replace any hard drive in ANY computer. The compact flash format is far from dead and it's still widely used as a hard drive in industrial applications.

so the Eee don't have any technological edge on any other computer; even it's small size and low price will be matched by the cloudbook.