Had mine for more than a month

Just got to love Taiwanese purchases! This machine is a must for any Linux hacker. You can also run XP on an external USB HD if your feeling brave.

Those looking for a case can I recommend a £15 case logic portable DVD player case from currys?

GPS on the Linux EeePC?

I had a chance to play with the EeePC a bit in a store near here. I like it very much and would buy one soon if I had a way to get some GPS action going. As another poster, I doo like MS Street and Trips.

Is there anything available for Linux that would fit the EeePC?

Volume

I'm very very happy with the Eee PC (one week now), except for one thing -- the headphone volume. I took it on an airplane trip and could barely hear the movie I was watching, with all volume at max. My old Dell Latitude LS has no trouble pumping out sound on the same headphones. I haven't tried different headphones yet to see if it is some sort of compatibility problem with the pair I was using. A boosted pair of headphones may be the answer.

I showed it to many of my younger cousins, and they all liked the form factor quite a bit. Nobody complained about the keyboard except for me (47) and my mother (76). I expect that younger folks have no trouble adapting to the smaller size. I have largish hands, but I'm getting used to it.

I use and administer Windows daily, and I'm a long-time Linux hobbyist. I don't care what OS a system runs as long as it provides the needed functionality. Xandros and Asus have provided an environment that is instantly usable by novice Windows users (like my parents).

Palm FOLEO Replacement???

This device looks like a good replacement for the Palm FOLEO, especially with the MoGo Bluetooth Dapter suggested by another reviewer. I would be linking this EeePC to my HTC Universal WM 5 PDA/Phone. Or I guess I could just move my 4 GB SD card between the two devices? Limited battery life is the main drawback, but if the charger is not too big or heavy, that is not a serious issue. Anyways, an interesting gizmo and I will be keeping my eye on it.

RIP OLPC?

It's not going to take much bulk pricing at Asus, with a bit more harsh commercial realism at MIT, for this little gem to match the price of Negroponte's Dream.

Difficult decision, eh? A small but proper computer, running real operating systems and real applications, or one step up from a V-Tech "My first laptop" toy?

nlite XP, USB... and maybe even malware free?

Phil - Can you post that 'config' somewhere? (I have not seen nlite before)

Could the version you created could be run from the SD slot??

And if all writes could be directed to a USB key, then the SD carrying the OS can be write-protected... and therefor safe from modification by malware???

@Swap + Flash Usage

"I expect they've simply removed the restore partition that takes up quite a bit of the flash on the 4GB version (it's not really needed anyway, as you can restore the OS from a USB key or external DVD drive anyway)."

It does not have a separate restore partition. The base system which doubles up as the restore partition is mounted read-only, and is merged with the partition holding the user generated files using the magic of UnionFS. Why is it that MS with its self-proclaimed "innovative" prowess haven't come up with something as useful as UnionFS?

DRAM SSD not flash

A lot of people have commented that the SSD might not be suitable for other OSs as it has limited write life. I was under the impression that this applied to flash based storage rather than the DRAM based storage which most SSD hard disk replacements are. I'm assuming that's the case with the EEE PC - anyone know any different?