I got my new toy -- an Asus EEE PC. It's a fully-functioning laptop, running Linux. It weighs less than two pounds, cost less than $300, and is about the size of a paper-back book. It has built-in wifi and a very small qwerty keyboard. I got it for checking email, surfing the web and taking notes in class. It will also be my main travel PC.
I can't do programming on it. It really isn't suited to photoshop, typing for long stretches of time, or really serious work. So it's perfect.
http://event.asus.com/eeepc/microsites/en/index.htm
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This bears researching. It sounds like an arcane item, an actual 'notebook'.
Did you pick it up with the proceeds of your 'economic stimulus check'?
we actually bought the child a custom gaming PC with our stimulus check from ibuypower.com (highly rated, very inexpensive gaming computers). He needs to be able to run animation software, a bunch of assistive software (text recognition, Kurzweil reader) and his laptop wasn't cutting it... my toy was cheap enough to just be a splurge!
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