When ASUS launched a little device called the Eee PC a couple years back, it was greeted with mixed feelings. Some people loved the original Eee PC, and others thought it was more of a gimmick. It was light and it could do basic computing, but so many items were lacking that like most things, you got what you paid for.
If you were looking for something small and inexpensive, great, but for me it was too small – 7″ was more like a large PDA than a small laptop. I couldn’t type comfortably, the 800×480 LCD was cramped even for basic Linux applications, and the 630MHz (underclocked 900MHz) Celeron processor was anything but fast.