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2007-12-28 , 15:48
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Originally Posted by earl00 View Post
show me any other laptop the size and weight and battery life of the eee thats not over $399 and I'll buy it. it's like saying why buy an n810 when you can buy a oqo model 2 (and yes you can put any flavor of Linux on it) - get my point.

http://www.oqo.com/
In that case, I offer my previous laptop: a Fujitsu P1120. You can get them really cheap now (used) and the specs are similar to the EEE but you get the full 8.9" of screen real estate and its a touchscreen to boot. They are built like tanks and will outlast any EEE "toy." The size is almost identical and so is the speed, or lack of it :0)
Plus it has a PCMCIA card slot, let's see the EEEs... oh wait, it doesn't have one :0(
If you haven't used an EEE sized PC yet, you will be surprised at ow BIG it really is. Sure, it's smaller by far than the boat-anchor 17" widescreen laptops americans gobble up. But it's really not everyday-portable at all, unless you carry a big purse.