the life and times of a code monkey
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I’ve heard some great things about the tiny little eeePC, but this is the best thing I’ve heard so far: it can be a Mac. Twitterer Gregory Cohen has pictures on Picasa of his completed eeeMac, an eeePC transformed (perhaps in similar fashion to this previous attempt — details please, Gregory) into an OS X-running ultraportable, complete with a tiny little lit Apple logo on the back.
via TUAW
Engadget are running a story with pics for HP’s answer to the Eee PC. It does look quite sweet, but no details of the full spec or final price as yet.
If they could pitch this about the same price as the Eee - I could see this being quite sweet… However, it says that it can come with Vista or Linux - my bet is that it’s going to be a touch more powerful than the Eee (it’ll need to be if Vista is an option!), and a shedload more cash!!! Please let me be wrong, (on the cash point 
)!
I really like the Eee PC - some people at work here have them, and if I could get it past the wife, i’d happily have one!
Seems like the well spoken geek Stephen Fry is quite a fan too:
I am writing this article on a kind of mini John the Baptist, a system that prepares the way of the software saviour whose coming will deliver the 90% of world computer users who suffer under Windows from the expensive, clumsy, costly, ugly, pricey toils of Microsoft.
The Asus EEE PC perched on my knee combines GNU software with a Linux kernel powered by an Intel Celeron Mobile Processor to produce a very extraordinary little laptop. It weighs less than a kilogram, starts up from cold in about 12 seconds and shuts down in five. It has no internal hard disk and no CD drive. It offers 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage and a seven-inch display; wireless, dial-out modem and ethernet adaptors are available for networking and internet connections, three USB ports, mini-jack sockets for headphones and microphone, a VGA out, an SD card slot and a built-in webcam. All for about £200 - less than the price of a show, dinner and taxi for two in London’s West End.