If you travel in an Unimog (=MOG?) then I'd rather take a slightly bigger windows laptop (maybe 15"). Neither Photoshop nor Autocad will run under Linux.

While instead of Photoshop you could use GIMP, I don't any replacement for Autocad.

The question is not what's generally better, but what's the better tool for your situation and in your case the answer might be windows.

While I do like Linux and use Ubuntu almost exclusively on my desktop, I have just windows on my MSI Wind subnotebook, because I do need Mapsource and some other programs when I'm on the road.

In my experience it's also best to go with the most simple setup. You could probably run Mapsource or Photoshop under Wine, save your routes and export them to your GPS with gpsbabel. The problem ist that this setup is complicated and will be far likely to break somehow than plain old Win XP.

Also I don't know about the size of the Asus EEE you're aiming at, but consider the ergonomy. If you're going to blawg, do serious work, edit photos, (...) you'll most likely will be spending quite some time in front of that tiny machine. A bigger notebook (with bigger screen and bigger keyboard) will in the end give you a better productivity, simply because of the better ergonomy.

That beeing sad and for what I do (planing routes, doing basic photo editing and blogging) I absolutely love my Wind.

So my advice: Don't follow the hype, but find the best tool for your job.

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