I could care less about widescreen. I doubt I'll spend much time directly using a mini-laptop (EEE PC, HP's new offering, etc.). At most, I'll probably want to have an external display, external keyboard, and external mouse. That's probably as directly as I'll ever use it.

However, I absolutely DO want an Express Card slot (I'll settle for PCMCIA), Wifi, Bluetooth, external monitor port, USB, and larger than 8 or 16 GB SSD options. Oh, and as much battery life as you can get out of it.

Why Bluetooth? For FTP so that I can store files for my N810 on it.

Why Wifi? So I can use it as an _access_point_ for my N810.

Why Express Card? So I can put a WWAN card in it, and thus use it as a WWAN gateway for my N810. I don't want such a thing _built_in_ to it, because I don't want limited choices. I want to pick my carrier, my protocol (GSM family, CDMA family, WiMAX, etc.), etc. I can do that with an Express Card or PCMCIA card. (I suppose I could do it with a USB dongle, but I'd prefer express card)

Then I'll just shove it in my bag, and leave it there except when I really need a bigger keyboard/screen than my N810 ... or to recharge its battery.

So, you can easily see why I consider an Express Card very attractive for me to purchase it ... and that I don't care one little bit about widescreen. I don't intend to use such a device as my mini-laptop. I intend to use it as my personal-area-network server.

My personal area (workstation) is my N810. Not something as awkwardly large as an EEE PC. Something that big belongs in a bag where it never sees the light of day.


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Oh, and I want Ubuntu on it. None of this gOS crap, Suse Enterprise on a UMPC (HP's plan), or whatever random a** linux distro the Eee has. Ubuntu damnit.