Great to hear it's as easy as advertised! I stumbled across the info a few days ago when researching rumors of a 2008 Eee desktop PC. Maybe the laptop makes more sense (especially with NAS in the house for media work).

My next project is to get a copy of Dyne:bolic linux <http://www.dynebolic.org/> onto an SD card and try booting it on my friend's Eee. That might just cause me to ditch my current Mac and finally learn more linux.

And slip, I'm planning to continue with Maemo in the future (assuming Maemo's planning the same); the Eee might just be a perfect dev box for my limited needs. Or the new Shuttle kpc, or the Eee desktop, or Linutop 2, or ???...