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CF card support is a good call IMHO - CF cards are dirt cheap and available in up to 16GB capacities with 32GB capacities promised for 2008.

This is quite a nice device - I like the screen res! - but my god is it ugly, that hump to the left of the hinge (is it the battery?) makes the camera hump on the N800 almost look sexy! ;) I suppose the hump may be useful as something to grasp when in tablet mode... also 1.5lbs is a bit on the hefty side for a tablet (that's 3 times the weight of the N800).

I found a video of the U810 on youtube here - it seems pretty nippy but mute the sound to avoid hearing the *REALLY* cheesy music (there's no commentary)! :)

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A PC-Card slot can do everything a CF card slot can do (since you can put CF cards into them, with a very simple caddy). A PC-Card slot can do everything an Express Card slot can do (again, just need a caddy). But specialized CF card devices aren't anywhere near as common as PC-Card devices. Just go look at the cell carriers, and show me how many supported CF card mobile modems they have. Now go do the same for PC-Card and Express Card devices.

That's why it shouldn't have a CF card slot. It should have a PC-Card slot.

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Perhaps the lack of PC/Express Card support is due to a lack of Linux driver support in general for such cards as the chipset seems capable of supporting Express cards. Or maybe Asus shied away from building an Express card "expandable" device due to the support issues this may create (but then, it has USB ports which fall under the same "expandable" category although USB devices probably enjoy wider support in Linux and are less of a headache...)

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But there is an empty mini-PCI/express slot inside the Eee...

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It looks like a great start, but wasn't this supposed to be the $200 computer?

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In that case, ignore me :)

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Someone at work bought an Asus R2Hv:
http://ca.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=...63&modelmenu=2

It was about $1000 a year ago, so similar price to the Fujitsu you mentioned. The spec page says that the R2Hv has a 7" screen, so bigger than the Fujitsu. Anyway, this was about a year ago, but the computer was s-l-o-w. Way slower than even the NIT 770. Vista ran like a dog on it, and the interface was just horrible. Even the EeePC is much faster and more usable than the Asus was. Vista is meant to run on a high-resolution display, end of story. Maybe Fujitsu did a better job, I see that the resolution is higher. All the same, I can't imagine that it would be very readable with a 5" screen.

The Fujitsu mentioned here is also three times heaver than the N800. Given the size and weight, I don't imagine that it would be very pocketable. Interesting device, though.

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Hm. That wasn't listed on the tech specs when I looked at them, on their web page.

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a) put in the hardware, and the software will eventually follow

b) there are some of those card makers that provide indirect or unofficial linux support (I don't remember which model, but one of the mobile modem makers had a "click here for using this with linux" link on the manufacturers web page for that card).

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Look here
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