Shame about that, I rather liked it on the 1000HE. Still, otherwise it's a very nice design and still vaguely in-line with the pricing of the rest of the netbooks out there.

while you are at it, why dont you look back and see how far back did you have to pay for a PC with same spec and price of an iphone? or a psp for that matter

arh~~ now you get the irony, and now you finally understand it is not about specs, it is about battery life and portability.

Try to figure out how far back in time you have to go to find a desktop that has the same approximate computing specs for around the same price.

I bet it won't be more than a decade. I've heard, but not verified, that whatever a desktop can do, you'll be able to get in a laptop approximately 3 years later for the same approximate price, and in a handheld 4 years after that.

I like netbooks, but I don't think I will replace my eeepc 1000ha until something with much better screen resolution is available.