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Susan, I think someone misread the 7 and thought it was 1.

lol

$200?? how much is just a notebook battery these days?? The average price is around $150 and they want us to believe they can sell you a whole computer for just a bit over the price of a battery??!!!!!

You know the old saying: "Hope makes the fools go merry!!!!" lol

It certainly sounds great and if we're talking about using this strictly as an "appliance" to access the internet and e-mail, it seems a good candidate.

My primary concern is that the solid-state hard drive described in the original article is supposedly only 2GB in size and even though the operating system being used has a MUCH smaller "footprint" than Windows, how much space will be left over to support other applications and/or personal files (images, documents, spreadsheets, multimedia, etc.)?

Lastly, while it looks like a typical laptop will the average person be disappointed if they compare the function of their 3ePC and a desktop/laptop at their workplace?

I bet you'll quickly find these for 50 bucks on ebay because people will quickly tire of squinting at the ludicrously small screen.

Did you realizethis thing has a screen about 6 times smaller than your typical notebook one???

Try taking a cardboard the size of your screen an then cut out a tiny rectangle with a 7" diagonal 16:10 ratio (it's TVs that are 16:9) and tell us if you'd love to see your computer screen thru that tiny hole for any extended time.

During the average time you would plan to surf the web, say at your favorite café's hotspot.

And don't feel ashamed to report your comments about this here!!

I'm writing this having booted from a 512Mb flash drive (puppy Linux) and I have about 250Mb storage remaining.

There are additional USB ports should you need more storage.

I agree with you Scott about the small screen, but there are locations where I feel it is safer to have a $200 laptop in my vechicle than to risk this $2,700 laptop and a 7inch screen is much bigger than my dang Blackberry's.

I don't expect this device to replace a full size laptop
anyway.

best regards,
Bob

Bob, I completely agree that there will be a specific market who will use the $189 laptop for specific needs, and it won't replace a laptop, just offer an alternative. I can see many uses for it, and the screen is bigger than the one on other popular devices like your Blackberry as you mention or an iPhone. I don't think the screen size will negatively affect sales to the target market.