This small notebook with a 7″ inch screen is yet another sign of how there’s opportunity in the black hole of portables: the market between the mobile phone (<3 inch displays) and the laptop (>10 inch displays). The market of web tablets:
It’s not a laptop. It’s not a notebook. It’s not a ultra mobile PC (UMPC). It’s everything above.
Linux seems to be the OS of choice for these devices. Let’s just hope there’s not going to be too many flavors of it. Developers need one and only one platform.
Photos of the Asus EEE can be found here
You can click your way through screendumps of the interface here.
Here’s a video of someone unpacking and booting up the device.
If you live in Sweden, you can order one here.
As Web Worker Daily has noted, there are now three quite interesting linux boxes out there. The EEE, the Nokia N***-series and the gPC (which is a sub-$200 desktop computer).