I own a few sub-notebooks myself and so far the Eee PC takes the crown depending on what you want it to do. The keyboard takes a little getting used to but I’ve seen worse(Fujitsu U810). The Linux OS that comes loaded with it is great. You can run a stripped version of XP and install MS Office, Photoshop and there will be still spaces for a couple of games or apps in your 4gb SSD. For what you want to do with it, you will be more than happy. Battery life is standard seeing the size of the machine and the price. 3 hours is a lot, compare it to any dual core machine and you will see. As for storage, you can always get an HCSD to pop your music, videos or whatever. Prices are just going down and down with removable media.
PROS:
Very light
Cheap
Quick startup
Silent
CONS:
Low resolution. Most web pages these days are made for 1024×768 so you will have to do some side scrolling with this machine.
SSD soldered to the board meaning no upgrading. Although SSD is still pretty expensive, you wont be upgrading this bad boy anytime soon. But if you get the 8GB SSD/1GB ram version then upgrading is possible.
No bluetooth! Isn’t a big deal but would be nice to use with cell phone for internet.
Somewhat cheap mouse button and touchpad. The single mouse button is somewhat hard to press, meaning you have to use 2 hands when using the touchpad. Maybe mine is defective but I find it very hard to press the button. Sadly the 10″ version will not push through but I still want to get that 8GB model and just sell my 4GB on ebay.
Bottom line
if you want a highly mobile laptop for browsing, some word processing and games here and there then you will never get wrong with Asus Eee PC.
