Opportunity window

> But, I agree, as soon as the EEE gets a halfway decent screen, there 
won't be a compelling reason to struggle with the XO.  Here in the first 
world anyway.  :)

The latter part is important. XO uses much less power than any other 
laptops (there are mobile devices that much do better, but not laptops).  
It's actually possible to use it outside of powergrid (using hand pull 
etc) unlike the normal laptops.  Here in the first world, I wouldn't mind 
a laptop like that at my parent's summer cottage (which doesn't have 
electricity, but could have networking through GSM).

One shouldn't forget about the mesh networking either which works even 
when the device is turned off.  Again, that's not an advantage here in the 
western land of broadband, but things are different in countries where in 
addition to powergrid, you don't have any computer network available, or 
if there is, it's very unreliable.