You can get touch screen kits for the Eee PCs quite cheaply which work really well (would better if the screen swivelled like a tablet) for GPS / Sat Nav type activities.
Bubeo you are right about hard drives being cheaper per Gb but I think the robustness of the SSD is worth it. My Western Digital USB hard drive failed mid trip, it was new before the trip and it lived in a neoprene stubby holder while in transit. I think my was bad luck but it shows what can happen.
The Eee PC 10 or 11 series have hard drives 160Gb and up. The problem is once you get a bigger hard drive or screen you want to do more with it and then you want it to do it faster, then the battery runs out to quickly. All this means the Netbook gets bigger and more expensive. This then starts to blur the line between a Netbook and a Notebook.
All depends on what you want it to do. For me it was email, a bit of web surfing, simple photo stuff and blog / journal. The little 701SD Eee was small and light as markharf said like a book.
Horses for courses.
Last edited by gixxer.rob; 10 Nov 2009 at 20:20.
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