what is going on. The eee was mentioned, she should be there. Not good enough. I know you're all busy coming up with April fools stories but still, that is no excuse.

But you fail to answer the most pressing question about these new models - how well do they work on a beach? Unless prospective customers can clearly see it illustrated that they can cope with the rigors of beach use, I'm afraid they're doomed.

Judging by the name, presumably the Thinno bird on the beach will not suffer from so much cellulite?

"The specification, like the brand, of the third machine remains a mystery, and its non-existent set of ports suggests it's a prototype rather than a system that's ready to roll."

Much like the MacBook Air then?

Mystery? No mystery at all. With "no ports" it must be an Apple... :)

A tx Are you are you sure they didn't just *ctrl+c* *ctrl+v* the sony TZ case plans

They're doomed to failure if they don't have a picture of a typical user on a sun-drenched beach ;-)

From a quick look the picture appears like a Mac Keyboard - and indeed the nice 'Mac style curves'.

im sure ill get flamed for the statement but it makes you think.... leaving quietly and quickly.... with a bulging coat pocket

Who will be on photographed the beach with these toys?

........ is a Fuji Siemens.

I think.

P.

mm, girls with small laptops!

So where are the Bird's then?!

All I see is that grubby Teletubby Hill from XP

love this baby laptop space right now.

recently bought an HPTX1340ea, but i'd like one of those 8" EEE's, they look cool. i think the extra screen space is what was need over the previous 7".

discussing it here:

http://www.eupeople.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=487

all welcome! :)

Pah, it's just an excuse for manufs to push up the prices of laptops, drop their cheap, yet good models, and sell, in the alternative, these plastic small screened underpowered pieces of crap.

Why?

Clearly the prices of proper laptops were falling. 499 / 399 / 299 .... an so on. It was going that way...and the specs were rising.

To avoid that Asus introduced something that looked like a laptop, with a crappy screen, low memory, crap storage and so on, nominally for £99, given the US pricing [and hype that fooled a lot into thinking that was the price even when they paid more] but in reality £199.

Now, they aren't improving the models the way other computers do, so each generation for the same money has a better spec.

No, they are slowly increasing the spec and pushing the price up too. i.e the reverse of what was happening with laptops.

Soon you mugs will be paying £300+ or £400+ for something that's still a cheap, plastic laptop rip off, and not as good as a laptop you could have bought for £350 over 3 years ago.

Worse, a picture of a flabby arse and a copy of linux on one model [soon dropped you note] and twice as many buffoons are salivating.

When these toys are the only laptop-a-likes under £500 and, they cost £300+ themselves, that's when you'll realise perhaps....

Why not tell Asus you want a real laptop for £250 instead? We don't have to pretend we're Africans taking the plastic laptops of green crapness from MIT. Demand the real thing.

Something with a hard drive you can store all the flabby arse pron you want on....