The marketing and development push for new smaller form factor PC's such as the UMPC standard has been going Strong for almost 2 years now. There is no question in my mind that there is a place in the market for these small form factor computers that are even more compact than the laptops many of us carry around now. The two big things that are currently holding back the miniature PC from main stream are battery life and cost. Asus realized that most people can't afford one of the beautiful touch screen UMPC's that many manufactures and building and selling for around the same price as a full laptop and developed the Eee PC, a small laptop with a 7 in screen, solid state memory which allows it to get tossed around a bit and a price that anyone can afford, best of all it still looks pretty sexy . Starting at around $400 the Eee PC comes with linux pre-installed and the only down side is a somewhat average battery life of around 3 to 3.5 hours.
