ASUS Eee PC [MERGED]

[mr_incredible]

But me, Imma wait for a price drop (if ever it comes)...

The same goes for me. I think it's possible since they're already in the process of designing its successor. And when that comes out, the price of this unit will surely drop. Plus, other manufacturers are in the works of creating their own versions of the common man's laptop.

For curiosity's sake, if any of you will be buying an Eee PC, will you install/opt for the Windows XP or the Xandros Linux-based OS?

I'm actually thinking about whether letting windows XP occupy a significant amount of flash disk space on this relatively low-spec'ed machine, not to mention the resources it would take up (windows has always been a resource hog), would be worth it.

It will run, yes, but is there really a lot of things that you need to do on this machine that can't be done using Linux? It's not like it's capable of running smoothly all the latest PC games and applications out there. If all I'll need it for is internet surfing, word processing, and probably a little multimedia functions, I certainly won't need windows for it. Some old games run on Cedega. Open Office is just like Microsoft Office. Codeweavers allow you to run some PC apps. On the other hand, I could probably just run Windows of a USB drive .