Hi all,
First, I think this has been a great forum. I just spent a whole three days trying to figure what I was going to do between purchasing A Mac Power book, a regular Vista Pc, and finally the EEE PC, this helped. In fact, it was also the idea of being able to get the N800 for less then $230.00 at Tiger Direct that made my final decision. I decided that I wanted to have the ability of extreme portability, and an OS that I LOVE, which is Linux. Anything to support the cause. My household is only a Linux household, I went extreme only after dealing with the nonesense of Mister Softie and his Orwellian antics.

However, I believe that one needs to have both of these devices to live. Look, first of all, the EEE PC only has 2.5 hours to 3, at least the version I obtained, and when I am flying on a Southwest flight, with no tv, then I am not going to be loving life at that point, unless I can distract myself. Sure, I can read a book, but its fun if you can play games, or work on a school paper. What exciting about both of these devices is that you can actually interchange your storage media, so when one is about to die, I use the other.

I also was worried about shelf life, usability before it becomes completly unsupported. Now both communities for Easy Pc and N800 are lively communities, and with an OS that is anti-obsoletence (if I invented this word, I am sorry...but its sounds great) , I can see that even if Nokia eventually abandons the N800. we will continue to have support.

Finally, I can -now tell you that I feel like I am armed to the teeth to do battle with anything, for not only will I have my EEEPC to work on papers, but I will have my Nokia N800 to transfer the papers from a non wifi hotspot, linking to my Mortorola V557 (Blue Tooth) and my Palm Tungsten e2 doing all of my expenses, and PIM work, which I intend to make interchangable with all three devices....even if I have to port Evolution into my N800


Thanks again!