Awesome rhetoric and personal feelings flying around here, but you've got to make the right choice for you.

You've got a few main factors to consider.

1.) Screen size. I have an EEE. I love my EEE. The screen size is small, 7 inches @ 800x480. I've got to move windows half off the screen to click 'OK' buttons and the like at the bottom. However, I'm fine with that. You can also plug the EEE into an external monitor and get higher resolutions, so for home use you might be fine with it. With laptops, the bigger the screen the bigger the unit obviously... which brings me to...

2.) Size. I have a widescreen Dell Latitude D620 as my work laptop sitting here and I'd hate to lug that thing around. It weighs a few pounds and after holding my laptop bag for an hour on the commute it hurts my shoulder. The EEE could fit into a cargo pocket and is less than 3 lbs. It's as big as a paperback book (well, a larger size one)

3.) Power. Power ain't all that it used to be. I've been using the same desktop since Feb 2004... a P4 3Ghz w/1GB Ram and a 256MB Geforce 5700TX video card. Only thing I upgraded was HD space (added a 320 gigger to the 80GB I bought it with). If you want to play high end games, don't even consider the EEE for a second. If you wanna browse the internet, play simpler games, do the whole Office suite thing, keep the EEE in the running.

4.) Usability. The EEE keyboard could be considered a form of torture if someone made you right out a 30 page thesis on it. For quick msg board posts, email, etc, it's great and does the job well. You can still plug an external USB keyboard into it for home use.

5.) Expandability. My EEE has a 4GB SSD and 512MB of RAM. I could easily upgrade to 1-2GB of ram (same as a laptop, unscrew the panel on the bottom, slap it in). Another thing the EEE offers is an SD card slot built into the machine. I have an 8GB SDHC card ($40) that I keep lots of media on. The 4GB is for installed apps (full blown Ubuntu install plus a few games like Wolfenstein Enemy Territory and I still have a gig free). So space-wise, it's not so bad.

Look at those points and see which way you lean.