http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/30/1853241
http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Hands_on_with_the_ASUS_Eee/
Can you say webserver?ย Laptop for a HS or college student?ย Child’s first personal computer?ย For $200, its a better deal then buying them a game system.ย Better yet, there is a lot of free open source software.ย 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.