I bought an Asus Eee PC900 something like 6 months ago.

It has totally replaced my Toshiba laptop for 95% of the reason I use a 
laptop in the first place.

It's major plus is it's small form factor; it fits on my desk and goes 
wherever I go.

Battery life is not that great but I plug it in 90+ % of the time.

I have to handle emails and internet access (for website 
editing/updates) pretty much 16 hrs/day.......this machine does that great.

It's worst negative is that some apps run slowly on it; I have the Flash 
drive version with after market Eee Ubuntu Hardy Heron and Firefox is 
achingly slow.

I switched over to Opera and pretty much solved that problem.

As long as I am careful about pictures and music there's plenty of room 
on the flash drive for everything else, as Ubuntu/Linux apps seem to be 
pretty small.

I have Lazarus installed for programming needs and I can create small 
apps without too much pain, being a Delphi guy at heart.

The Open Office suite takes care of the usual doc needs.

Only real problem is that it doesn't play well with my Samsung Saga 
phone through Bluetooth. I never have been able to connect the two.

But all in all it is a better solution for me than lugging that Toshiba 
around, and it is far more reliable. Ubuntu makes me feel at home as a 
long time Windows user w/o much pain at all.

If I had it to do again, I'd get one with a hard drive; maybe look for a 
more powerful one, but it would not be necessary for what I use it for.

We also have an Acer here (ubiquitous at WalMart, I think) with WinXP 
and it is used on the floor for testing some of our products, as well as 
in a drag race car for collecting data.

It fulfills those needs very well.

Question: Anybody seen one with a firewire port?

Mark

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