My order for a new Asus eeePC was dispatched today from research Machines.

The little fella cost me £200 squids plus V.A.T.

It comes pre-installed with Linux and is capable of running XP (although I’ll not be installing it)

For those that don’t know it’s an ultra-portable laptop. It weighs about 2 lbs and has a 7 inch screen. It has 512MB of DDR2-400 memory and 4Gb flash storage expandable with USB drives. It has inbuilt Ethernet, 802.11b/g wireless, and a 56K modem, integrated web camera and microphone.

As you can see form the pictures it’s tiny. Not big enough for your main machine, but cool for occasional / portable use.

Stuff has a nice review here

I’ve been jonesing for this for about 6 months. Ever since I got my new N95 (which I am delighted with) and ditched my old M5000 (which I loved for always on connectivity, but which was just too bulky as a normal phone) I’ve been looking for something for occasional web browsing and taking notes etc.

This bad boy along with my N95 fits the bill of being portable enough to take with me along with the phone, so that I have phone and PC functionality, but when I don’t want to carry anything bulky I can leave it behind and use the cut-down functions of my N95.

I’ll do a post when I get it with my first impressions.