That does look like a lot of laptop for the buck...although I couldn't find pricing on the ASUS site. Had to Google, and discovered that their original target price was $199 for the cheapest model, but that a sharp rise in the price of flat panel displays has just about doubled the actual retail price. Basic model is about $325 (2 gigabytes of RAM disk), the middle one's $386-441. Couldn't find a price for the big 8GB model, which is the one I'd want.

That's still pretty good pricing, though it probably is significantly undermining their basic strategy of a computer for "impoverished" societies. ASUS is a big company and seems to build most of the motherboards coming out of Asia, so I've no doubt it's good hardware. Not bad.