Martin Cleaver, masterfully.

Technology marches on, smaller, faster, cheaper.

This is especially pertinant at the ultralight end of laptops. My Asus EeePC is a diminutive (7″) laptop running Xandros, a windows-look-alike version of Debian Linix, had a 4GB solid state drive, built in wifi and webcam. The cheaper ones (surf models) don’t have webcams. Here’s the http://wiki.eeeuser.com/eee_hardware_faq

It’s great for being on the move and mine’s officially my backup laptop. (I’m planning to buy a Mac subnotebook, announcement due at Macworld Jan 14th 2008, i.e. next week).

Now, Asus just announced at CES2008 the 2nd generation eeepc, due in April, and featuring slightly larger screens and built in Wimax. But the hacker culture doesn’t wait (http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=5417 already has people adding bluetooth and increasing internal capacity 20 fold).

With my IBM X30 down, one has buy when one needs: I couldn’t handle not being able to work when mobile.

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