It's not just me (a 50 year old ex-Z88 and Acorn Risc PC user), but also my wife (a 42 year old late adopter of home computing) who would like an Asus Eee PC and a Wii. However, whilse most people seem to have understood what is good about a Wii they don't seem to have grasped the essential about the Eee PC, and I fear this could include Asus.

The issues for me, and lots of others, are price-point and practicality. If you want a laptop for email and a bit of word processing, then there is a world of difference between £220 and £340 in the justification stakes. You just cannot compare a £1,000 Apple Macbook Air with an Eee PC any more than you can compare a Ford Ka with a Ferrari. However the Eee PC is not just a cheap laptop, it is small enough to take in your luggage - not as your luggage.

For many, this is a very practical point. I also think Asus missed a trick with the soldered flash memory. If they had put a second SDHC port inside and fitted it with a fast card then they could have made one model but shipped whatever was in demand.

But what do I know, I can't even find one in stock at the right price.

Mark Foweraker