Was there a reason that you didn't suggest the Asus Eee PC to David Stansby, who was asking for a sub-£250 laptop? Emma Duke-Williams
There were several reasons. It's much nicer to surf the web, chat etc with a 15.4 inch screen, 1.6GHz or faster processor and an 80GB hard drive rather than to use an Eee PC with its somewhat pokey 7-inch screen, 600MHz processor and no hard drive. Cheap laptops have much better keyboards, and many adult users will find the Eee PC's keys too small. Cheap laptops also have DVD drives, which the Eee PC doesn't, and can run iTunes, Windows Media Center, and thousands of games the Eee PC can't. The small cost saving means making a lot of compromises elsewhere.
I like the Eee PC, and I've written plenty about it. I think it's a great second/mobile machine. But that wasn't what David asked for.
