Cold feet with the Eee too
Maybe I just can’t make a decision these days.
After some second thoughts about the XO laptop being able to do for me what it was never meant to do, I thought I would buy the Asus Eee this weekend to serve as my ultra-portable sublaptop for travelling. Why this weekend? Because I bought a new camera and want to wait until after it arrives in the mail before I buy the Eee (to use it to take pictures & videos of the Eee…there’s always a reason to my madness).
Of course, this may be the worst time to decide to buy anything because of CES.
jkkmobile reported the Asus prototypes of the 8″ Eee, and now I’m left to wonder whether I should wait a potential year (by my random estimation based on no facts or review of previous market/production activity) for the production to start on those or just buy the existing model now.
For no reasons other than the aesthetic of the laptop with the wider screen, I prefer the promise of the 8″ Eee (especially because, at this point, there doesn’t seem to be any other difference between the two models). When I look at the two laptops side by side, the prototype of the 8″ has a better balanced ratio of screen-to-plastic, visually. I must hand it to Asus, though, for choosing black as the colour surrounding the screen, even for the white model, of the 7″ Eee. The black hides the awkward relationship of the screen’s length and width much better than white would. And although the white one has potential of being mistaken for an isomethingorother, the black one reminds me of a ThinkPad from the days of yore.
And where does this post leave me? Nowhere, really. Realistically, I’ll probably end up buying the Eee this weekend as planned and trying to unload it next year when the 8″ is available. That’s just what happens when you get a woman who likes gadgets instead of shoes.
Tags: asus eee, technology, xo laptop
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