Its really under-powered ...

I understood what they were aiming for when they announced this product, a low-cost laptop for people that just want the basics, email, word processing, web browsing, etc. But with a $400 price tag it really misses the mark. If you watch sales you can often buy a "real" laptop for $400-500 or a cheap desktop for $300-$400. Once this thing gets down to around $200 it might make more sense but for now it just doesn't.

Yeah, $400 is way too much.

Agreed, 400 is way too much for what you get.

Processor: Intel Celeron M ULV 900MHz

No CD or DVD drive.

Built in 0.3 Megapixel camera

Weighs 2 pounds

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From a reviewer...
Pros
* Small and light
* Easy to use
* Reasonably well built and durable
* Low price for an ultraportable
* Works right out of the box!
* That's right. It works right out of the box!
* Did I mention it works right out of the box?

Cons
* A little expensive for a notebook with only 4GB of storage
* No Microsoft Windows pre-installed is a negative for some buyers.
* Plastics "look" cheap
* The battery meter isn't very accurate.

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So, it works. That's the big selling point?

your are actually paying more for the mobility.

Actually it's the miniaturization. The smaller it gets the more expensive and less features you get.

Let me ask you a question,
Do you think dell laptop is way too much as well because it is way too heavy compared to EeePc?

you guys are asking too much, you are asking the small a4 size with core whatever power and larger space or memory, with that cheap price.

Even you think it's expensive, it sells quite well.

Just spend an extra 50 - 75 and get a real laptop!

it have it's own niche market.

I have a laptop and one of these in black. When I go on the road I take this at 2 lbs. instead of lugging an 8 lb HP. If you want to do email, web surf, and oppen office - it just works well. Wifi and Lan connection, my Palm TX can't do that.

I just can't see much use for one. An 800x480 screen isn't useful for much anymore except bash terminals and DVDs, and the thing doesn't hold enough to store a significant amount of video. It would make a nice firewall/vpn box or mini home server, with external storage and a USB nic, but for $400 you can buy a real notebook.

It either needs to be cheaper (Asus claimed the Eee would launch for $200) or have more storage and a bigger display (the bezel is big enough for an 11"). A transflective LCD like the XO-1's wouldn't hurt, so the screen wouldn't be a power drain under decent lighting conditions.

Right now it just seems like an overgrown, overpriced PDA.

sorry, this is way too expensive. someone who has $400 on hand will easily look away.

its only 2 lbs.. find another comparable laptop in the same weight category... With its SSD it will boot XP faster than most of your laptops. Pop in a 1gb dimm and and a 4 or 8 gb flash and I think this thing is an excellent little machine.

Only negatives for me is the screen doesn't take up the entire size of the panel.

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I will rather get the Dell X1 or the Vaio TG-150 on Ebay for around 500..... full computer with 12" sceen. And it weights 2.5 pounds.....
The eee is overpriced!!

#15 - there are 10" and 11" full notebooks that weigh 2 pounds. They're not cheap, mind, but I'd rather have one notebook that does everything than lug around a tiny notebook plus a bulky one if I actually want to be productive.

SSDs aren't by definition faster than a hard drive. If you don't believe me (or the reviews), try booting your computer from a CF card some time. And once you add memory and extra storage, you're paying $500 for a notebook that still has a tiny screen that still can't show applications worth a damn, unless you happen to love constant scrolling.

small, powerful, cheap: pick any 2.

small: the ultra-light laptops start at $1000, are not solid-state at that introductory price, and not as small as the eee.

powerful: the eee is not powerful by any recent benchmark, but if all you want to do is human-limited (click on web pages, type an email, fill-out a spreadsheet, listen to music), it'll be enough. and the majority of my work day is not spent waiting on the cpu; instead it is waiting on me.

cheap: yeah, there are cheaper laptops that are more powerful (usually a sempron or core solo), but they are full-size 14" laptops (and their cpu & gpu are not going to play your favorite game well either). and you can usually land a deal (~$500) for a "good" dell laptop (vostro 1000, dual-core amd cpu), but you are paying a little more and it's 14", 6 lbs, and non-SSD.

is the eee perfect? no. everybody wants a slightly larger screen, larger SSD, and more RAM.

you need to figure out your requirements, weigh those against your budget, and buy what best fits. and to many, the eee doesn't fit.

i wouldn't buy the eee either, or a laptop at all, because what portability i need is met with my $100 pda or $150 nokia 770. so for just $250 i met all my portable computing requirements, but i won't call you stupid for having spent more on a laptop to fulfil your different requirements.

DO you know why girls like EeePC and iBook?
Because they don't make them look stupid.

Girls with Dell laptops? ...stupid, too ugly.
Girls with iPhone? ...stupid, too big for them.
Girls with PDA?... definitely stupid...