Your friend is lying in order to cover up his shameful addiction. It's all about levelling. After that it's all about hanging around the bank on a unicorn, or was that UO?

It'll probably still be cheaper to hire a driver than buy one of these.

Also your driver won't blindly follow a GPS the wrong way down a one way street.

Where do you plug the embryo vat freezing unit into on this raft? May as well ditch it if you can't..

Unless you crashed the plane in the Arctic Ocean of course in which case you're all screwed anyway (apart from the embryos but they have no frigging idea what's going on).

One thing that most never seem to mention, but for me was one of the biggest bonuses of the Eee, is that the charger is like a mobile phone charger.. The transformer part of it is in the plug itself, not another box with a load of heavy wires. It's a nice thin cable. The main prob with laptops for me in the past was the bulk of the charger once you wrapped the cable up around the transformer. It was hard to keep everything nice and compact. Not an issue with the tiny Eee PC and its small and LIGHT charger.