I think the $99 price is a big threshold. It's the point where you can start thinking of general-purpose computing as something that gets sold in a convenience store, just like storage media, MP3 players, and digital cameras. As a product, I don't think this one hits the spot, though.
The specs are hardly impressive, but they're also probably overpowered for most conceivable tasks; it doesn't have the controls to do gaming well, the screen real-estate is too tiny for most other graphic-intensive stuff, it doesn't have the connectivity to be a server, and it's probably too cramped for long-term typing.
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I think the $99 price is a big threshold. It's the point where you can start thinking of general-purpose computing as something that gets sold in a convenience store, just like storage media, MP3 players, and digital cameras. As a product, I don't think this one hits the spot, though.
The specs are hardly impressive, but they're also probably overpowered for most conceivable tasks; it doesn't have the controls to do gaming well, the screen real-estate is too tiny for most other graphic-intensive stuff, it doesn't have the connectivity to be a server, and it's probably too cramped for long-term typing.
This thing really is _too_ small.