Another clutch of tiny computers

I don't want to keep banging on about tiny sub-notebooks just because I'm nervous about the tenner deposit I put down on a June delivery for a £100 Elonex One sub-notebook.

But the fact is that yet more of the genre emerged last week. One is the scary-to-say nine inch Jisus from Van der Led which seems to be pink, although I see there are less and more violent colours available.

 

Another is the eight inch Fukato Datacask which despite the exotic pirate name is a conventionally boring silver and black jobbie...Like the bigger 9inch screen version of the Asus EeePC which is about to go on sale at around £300, and like several imitators which all breach the magic $400/£200 price barrier, both are to be sold at around €300 which used to be around £200 but of course is no longer.

 The trouble with breaking through the £200 barrier is that the rising price of these slightly larger subs has collided with the downward price of conventional, fully equipped laptops - their prices having fallen precipitately, partly powered by the emergence of the Asus EeePC itself.

 

Saverstore, for example has a proper 2Gig, 80G hard drive plus DVD writer 15inch Acer laptop for £290 . On the other hand maybe all this will persuade us in the direction of that old Cedric Pricean thing about using appropriate technology rather than desperately keeping up with the technological Joneses.

Omigod here's another one. The seven inch $400 3K Longitude 400 . Oh, and early Far Esst EeePC 9 incher buyers are having their underpowered batteries replaced.