Hmm. Portable, handheld device, with a hard drive inside...

I will admit I've dropped my N800 once or twice with no ill effect. Can you imagine dropping that fujitsu? That thing needs an SSD.

I meant the fujitsu. And I meant an Express Card slot (narrow/updated version of a PCMCIA/PC-Card slot), not a PCI/e slot.

Read the subthread. Both Milhouse -- who I replied to -- and myself were clearly referring to the Eee.

Err... no.

I started out saying, in reply to the general thread, "too bad it ... uses a CF slot instead of an PC-Card .."

to which milhouse said "CF card support is a good call IMHO"

to which I pointed out why a PC-Card is superior to a CF card.

then milhouse speculated about drivers, and so on. But the CF card vs PC-Card/Express-Card sub-thread definitely revolved around the fujitsu.

I replied to this: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...4&postcount=13

Right, which was a follow up to my comment about why PC-Cards are better than CF cards.

Yes, he mentioned asus in there, but discussion, in general, was still about the fujitsu device. (does the Asus Eee PC even have a CF slot on it? (haven't looked, but I don't recall it being mentioned in any of the review sites); if not, it would seem to imply a confusion of references on milhouse's part)

How ambiguous can a sentence like: "But there is an empty mini-PCI/express slot inside the Eee..." be?

Is there a Fujitsu Eee I haven't heard about? If there is, Asus certainly wouldn't like it.

And to answer your question: The Eee only has one SD(HC) slot on the outside. Then again, that infamous mini PCI/e slot on the inside might accomodate a CF-adapter; Asus claims to be readying all sorts of expansion modules for that slot -- without specifying even one, of course.

The point I (as were others) was trying to make, is that the Eee is surprisingly expandable for such a compact and seemingly proprietary machine: 3 USB ports, the SD(HC) slot, the internal PCI/e socket (there are in fact 2 of them, one being occupied by the Wifi card), even the RAM can be expanded with bog-standard DDR chips. It's such a nice machine, that I'm almost (but not really) regretting having won my Pepper Pad 3.

But, like I said: not really, I got my Pad for an unbelievable price (probably due to the constant rumours of Pepper being in deep troubles). So low, in fact, that an Eee for my niece for Xmas (Yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking with it ) might not totally be in the realm of fantasy. You gotta love that worthless US dollar...

I must admit I forgot which device I was talking about when I replied to your post. Maybe it was too early in the morning but I completely missed your reference to EEE when I had in fact been referring to the Fujitsu when discussing CF/Express card support - when I replied to you I was under the mistaken impression that I'd been discussing the EEE, and replied too quickly without putting my brain in gear!

Sorry for the confusion that has now ensued!

Correct - I can't cope with all these different devices!

I was referring only to the Fujitsu when discussing CF/Express card, and posted a confusing reply to Karel when he pointed out the inclusion of an Express card slot in the Eee.

Sorry chaps!