New portable

Both Asus and MSI are about to bring 1.6GHz Atom based 10" notebooks paired to 6-cell battery for 5+ hours of battery life. Both Wind and EEE1000 are about the same with Wind being less advanced (80GB 2.5" HD vs. 40GB SSD, G vs N) and hardware details less known. Both would have Intel 945GSE (GMA950) chipset and thus Leo would have QE and depending on wireless would make working Leo laptop.

Wind should come out at $549 any day now and Amazon already list them. With Wind I should make sure that it has 6-cell battery (2.6lbs vs 2.3lbs listed on Amazon) and Wind Linux version is a rip-off not worth $400 due to 3-cell battery and lack of bluetooth.

EEE1000 would come out probably before fall at $650+??? and depending on its price we may see Wind price drop (I want $50 Amazon rebate) and confirmed price drop on EEE900 when EEE901 comes out. EEE900 being a 900MHz Celeron and GMA900 is not worth it even at $400. If EEE901 Linux version (20GB) would ship for bellow $500 (and I mean $450) it may be worth it for N-wireless, but otherwise (say at $500) Wind's extra inch of keyboard for extra $50 makes all the difference, unless MSI totally don't screw up with hardware details.

So apparently Wind it is, but then again in Q3 Intel should start making 2 core 1.6GHz Atoms. If there would be an announcement of Wind or EEE1000 with dual-core for bellow $700 this is an Atom based computer I want and should wait for looking on how Leo would install on Wind...