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Actually, I have a stand alone CD I pop into computers sometimes that has a graphics suite, word processing, audio processing, video processing, about sixty games, a massive dictionary, firefox, an email suite with support for linking to my PDA.. About a third of the CD is actually just drivers.

Linux has a very small footprint compared to Windows. Ubuntu is a bit of a hog compared to a lot of distributions, but I used PuppyLinux, with it’s .078gb footprint as one of the best wireless Tivo players I ever had.

2gb is large enough to handle all the word processing you’ll likely ever write, your web surfing, some games, and if you find that limit kind of restrictive, toss in a $29 4gb SD card, or hook up a $50 120 gb external drive.

The thing that’s so attractive to me is that for $300 I’ve a laptop that can play video, play music, get online with, and a battery that lasts almost twice as long as most premium laptops. It’s size is smaller than a thin hard back novel.

What I’d love to see is a hybrid of the Eee PC and the OLPC, as I love the swivel screen on the OLPC and the game buttons - probably the best portable e-reader outside of the Kindle.