A very positive step forward. It seems Asus is addressing a number of li’l Eee’s shortcomings while maintaining the same footprint. This should be a big advantage over the much larger HP 2133 (~11″ x 7″). It will be interesting whether Asus can maintain a relatively low price while adding features (WWAN, tablet, etc). Depending on some of the physical and architecture constraints, this new computer might be a good platform for aftermarket modifications (“Pimp my Eee”).

Fujitsu has been a long-time leader in ultra-portable notebooks; I’d like to see Fuji reach into this market with a stripped-down, low-cost version of the P1600 series. In the meantime, there are P1610s on eBay…

how hard or easy would it to be to put an OEM copy of XP on the 20GB with linux?

$499 is what I paid for my 8G from Newegg.com so I’m hoping for the EeePC 900 Xandros model to have the 12 or 20G SSD and then I will put my XP on it and restore the old one to Xandros and sell it.

“In the beginning of April we will be releasing the 8.9-inch and then May and June we will provide another feature for each one.”

whats that mean?

For 350, I love my 4G Surf. I don’t know that I would at five hundred.

Any guesses when we’ll have more information, ANYTHING, about the HP device?