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By DeepBlue1975 on 3/26/2008 4:49:52 PM , Rating: 2
Guys, please stop comparing an EEE with a fully fledged laptop.

Mi wife bought a Compaq machine which is a great 17 incher with dual core processor, excelent resolution and 160gb hdd space amongst many other great stuff.
We take it on holidays and take advantage of the fact that we can use it in every single room of the house, just connected via wifi which is served by my dinosaur sized desktop...
All for $600, which is roughly what this EEE will cost.

But then again, I payed more than that for my Nokia N95-3 which is obviously much less efficient than her laptop, and even much less powerful than the least powerful EEE, but hey, I can't put the 17" laptop in my shirt's pocket, or can I?

If you are going to compare the EEE to anything in the market, it has to be an UMPC like the sony vaio TX (which costs quite a bit more) or the upcoming HP which surely will cost loads more than the EEE because of the rumored specs.

As for me, as soon as the diamondville version of the EEE gets out, I will be getting one (not because of power, but rather because it will heat a bit less and eat less power, while also performing better). And that laptop I plan to use to take notes on my german and portuguese classes while lively recording the teacher's pronnunciation, and to watch videos on the go, to write small docs here and there and to play old games which it will be able to run, and also to browse the net using my n95 as a 3g bluetooth modem in places I couldn't dream of taking my wife's 17" with me.

Lets name it like it is: the problem is not the price, but what you want to do with the machine, and most importantly, in which occasions will you be using it.

If you don't feel the need to have internet access / office documents almost everywere you go without the hassle of getting a big heft around, and you don't need to get really complex tasks done with it, then you're right, you don't need and EEE nor any other UMPC which, analyzed solely on a power/buck ratio, will always loose to fully fledged laptops.

The most weighting factor here is increased portability and ease to take it out almost everywere, which can't be said for 14" and bigger laptops, and if you talk about 10-12" inch ones, then you will need to pay so much more than what an EEE costs.

It's like saying "why buy a quad core CPU when a single core one gets the job equally well done for me?". When you need to ask yourself that kind of question, it is very clear, at least for me, that the product you are talking about is not right for you at all.

