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I'm with Khertan on the 'not the same market' point. I don't think Nokia will feel particularly threatened by the mini-laptop that is the Eee. 7 inch screens are well and good for viewing things on, but that 7 inch screen has the same resolution as the 4.1" screen on our ITTs, which seems a bit funny to me. It has more power and it has a keyboard. But it is way to big to fit in a pocket, meaning you'll have to lug it around in a bag which would completely defeat the purpose of the idea for me. I didn't buy my ITT for it to be a cheap little pc, I bought it so I could have an internet device in my pocket, something that wouldn't be a chore to carry around. You'd have to have a reason to carry around an EEE, since it would require you to carry a bag for it. An EEE might be good for college students, but aside from that I'm really not sure what the point of it is, and it isn't a direct competitor to the ITT's. As far as the masses going for one or the other, they won't. The masses don't need or want a really small laptop any more than they need a linux tablet with wifi that fits in their pocket. If it ran windows xp, then maybe it would have a shot at a real market, but running linux is just going to get you stuffed into a niche market at this point. It would have been a good form factor for a umpc, running xp at that size and price point would be great, but it doesn't, and while you could install xp yourself, the storage space would be an issue, and frankly 'the masses' arnt big on reinstalling operating systems.