[fwlug] HP's answer to the eee

[Rob Ludwick]

> Thanks Rob - that is very interesting. And I hadn't heard that they were 
> planning a six cell battery for the (wh)eee - that's good news.

I suspect that after looking at the motherboard that many of those chips
could be integrated, thus saving board space to allow for a bigger
battery pack.

> 
> All of which goes to suggest (as if we didn't know) that the only way to 
> know for sure how a device behaves is test it under appropriate 
> conditions. Much as I'm ready for something little and cute, there's no 
> way I'm buying even the cheapest machine until I see some reliable 
> review/testing info.

It's like that either HP or HP's suppliers will have a better design.
Wasn't this Asus's first attempt at a laptop of any kind.

--R