hi guys,

i was surfing around and found an article in cnet asia about the Asus EeePC 1000, what caught my attention was that it had a battery life of up to 8 hours (6-cell battery). although i already have a laptop (acer aspire 4520g), i'm beginning to get interested with these ultraportable laptops and netbooks (i don't know what the difference between those 2 terms are, i just know they're small, hehe). has anybody tried using these kinds of laptops, can you give any feedbacks and other models?

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btw, i'm trying to imagine how to re-install (in case i need to) the OS of an ultraportable, since it doesn't have an optical drive.

thanks for the links mr geek, i'm not sure if you noticed in the wiki link that you gave, the eee 1000 series has a eee 1000 model (rated battery life of 4.2-7.5 hours) and eee 1000H model (rated for 3.2-7 hours), although anything that has a battery life of more than 2 hours (in power saving mode) is pretty long for me.

@the geek
i wasn't able to checkout the vaio link you provided earlier (it was blocked from the office), i was only able to open it at home... yikes! that is way too expensive for me... maybe if i get promoted later this year, hehe.

@whs
that's a pretty good looking ultraportable , although it says there that it's not yet confirmed if it'll be available outside Europe. i'm waaaaay on the other side of the earth.

pipo, There will be a lot of others soon. Everybody seems to jump on the bandwagon - the Atom chips make it possible. The problem with those little ones was the power supply (not much batterie you can install). But the Atoms use only 15% to 20% of the power compared to traditional chips. That's the opening.