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2007-07-30 21:45:49 +0000 - Written by Jamie

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/30/1853241http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Hands_on_with_the_ASUS_Eee/Can you say webserver? Laptop for a HS or college student? Child’s first personal computer? For $200, its a better deal then buying them a game system. Better yet, there is a lot of free open source software. If you look at the menus, they even come with OpenOffice which can read/write MS Office files up to 2003. I think if these work out, they might actually give Linux and other Unix based OS’ a real foothold.