Clever—yet more hyperbole from Mr. WinMob.

I generally wear jeans or 4-pocket (plus watch!) shorts, neither of which have cargo pockets and my N800 fits just fine in both, even with a cellphone in the same pocket! Heck, my N800 fits fine in all of the dress pants I have, too, so I'm not sure what you're wearing.

N800 fits in pocket of my jeans. Maybe not comfortable but I am able to move and sit freely. In fact I very often forgot I have tablet there.

I suppose N810 would fit even better (smaller and thinner).

What kind of graphics card's in the EEE? Does it have 3D support in Linux? To be more precise, will Google Earth work?

Intel GMA900. Basic 3D should be fine, don't expect anything mind blowing. I'd guess GE works.

My N800 fits in my shirt pocket, more or less. Some sticks out, but it stays in place. I've carried it in the pocket of a t-shirt. It easily fits in a pocket of my flight suit.

Well, at least I don't borrow a name from a two cent character out of a third rate movie / fourth rate novel set. Neither do I praise a product "US patriot" style.

Maybe something more civilised without pockets hanging to the knees. Backpockets are out since that would mean sitting on the thing while driving / sitting in a chair or having to remove it every time I sit down.

Front pockets mean it will stick out. Not to mention that the N800 lack a hard case so chances are they will get damaged. Again not useabel without constand removal when sitting.

Shirt pocket barely goes but it will stick out quite a bit and will likely take a nosedive whenever one bends forward since buttoning the thing down won't work

The unit might (barely) work with a belt-case but otherwise it's a now-show.

Jesus, back to the "what kind of pants do you wear". I like sticking my EEE *AND* my 770 in this big trap of mine that I use to sound off given any chance.

Anyway.

I just got back from a road trip to Ottawa. The EEE was pleasant to use during Sunday's hangover and Monday's hangover. I played some songs, watched a few movies, played a few games. Battery life was around 3 hours though I only used it for about 2.5. I did have some webcam play on the highway. (This was my "I just booted Ubuntu on a highway, awesome" phase.)

Since last post, necessary codecs have been installed and overall it seems to be a very stable system. I think the install is complete as I can't think of much more I'd like to put on here or test out. Overall it was extremely painless and I didn't encounter any large problems; at least any problems that weren't quickly remedied by searching the EEE user forums / wikis.

Now. You guys need to settle down about being brand warriors. I'll give my two cents on the whole experience.

I don't have a cell phone, I don't want a cell phone. Canada has worse data rates than Rwanda (I'm serious), so I've no reason to get one. I also do a lot of offline stuff on my tablets like playing games or reading offline articles / eBooks, etc. Media's another big thing that doesn't require connectivity. My use case is probably radically different than all of yours.

The EEE makes an awesome mothership for the tablet. For light travel (ie leaving the house) the tablet will suffice perfectly. For heavier travel like leaving the city, the two work in tandem beautifully. I would pull out the 770 (which has a great standby battery life) to see if there were hotspots available. If not, I wouldn't even bother booting the EEE if it was connectivity I was looking for. (Pretty expensive WiFi detector I know, but ah well.) I was also able to copy media over to the 770 from the EEE's lush farm of USB ports. Hell, I could've even flashed a new OS to the 770 in a parking lot if I wanted to.

The EEE on it's own is great. I kept saying it was more of a sub-laptop - - perfect for the niche between tablet and laptop (which I didn't know existed, but hey). Now I tend to think I judged it too soon, with a full blown OS on there... well... it's a laptop. Not a beefy one, but I could seriously see people using one of these full time. It wouldn't satisfy my computing needs but for Joe Internet User it'd be perfect.

Overall I'm glad I wasted $399 on it. Much more satisfying experience than the tablet. As Andrew said though, the tablet is much more interesting. Definately a form factor I'd like to see brought further... but I don't think the 'ole stalwart 770 will see a replacement until they come out with step 5.

I'm downloading Google Earth right now (370kps). I know the EEE will handle some 3d because I've seen gears running in some compiz videos.

File permissions changed, it's uncompressing. 10 seconds later I'm in the installer. 1GB free out of the 4GB total (this is a plain Ubuntu install with no swap or local media). Install took about 15 seconds.

"Your desktop resolution is set to smaller than 1024x768. Google Earth requires a resolution of at least 1024x768 to be viewed properly. The application will run however the layout may not be optimal."

D'oh. The app took about 5 seconds to start/hit the server.

When not in full screen, the window is black. It started as a black circle with a blue halo around it but went all black when I tried to manipulate it. However, I hit F11 to go into full screen and it works great! Scrolling and zooming is very smooth.

*Edit: After a few more mins with it, some dialogue windows are slow to redraw.

anything with a IDE port can use a IDE to CompactFlash adaptor (5$) and boot from the CompactFlash. CF cards are cheap, robust and size going up as price goind down.

I work in Industrial/embedded computers and all our customers boot from CF cards then run in RAM.

so a SSD is not an advantage when it's soldered onboard.

I need a touchscreen Cloudbook ...

Well, you're certainly free to buy whatever you want. Slagging people because they don't like what you like doesn't make much sense to me...