Finally the digital revolution enters the next stage of small and affordable computing. The success of the Asus Eee PC has spawned a whole range of competing machines. The Eee is so far a huge success: it’s small affordable (under 300 Euro), very portable (just around 1 Kg) and it simply works (the screen and keyboard are obviously not very big - but bigger and better than anything a cell phone or PDA like a Palm can offer).

Now this is finally a machine that has enough power to surf the web, do some work and communicate with your buddies (via Skype or instant messaging).

It’s a great secondary machine - because it has not enough memory to hold your complete MP3 collection no does it have enough horse power to do image a lot image or video editing. Not to mention it’s graphics are far to weak to play any serious game. But give it some time and those weaknesses are solved as well.

Most of all: the machine is CHEAP. So mobile computing becomes a cheap commodity (all machines are around 300 Euro) - so you are less afraid of carrying your precious computer around. Plus our global infrastructure offers more and more free wireless access - without which such a machine would be worthless.

I am looking forward to a whole batch of machines for next Christmas - and by one in addition to my other - heavier - notebooks.