Asus EEE ate their lunch (Score 1)

No good deed goes unpunished...

The Asus EEE really helped launch the market for cheap notebooks and costs are only going to get lower now that the idea is getting popular. Soon it will be cheaper for them to simply buy off-the-shelf netbooks and ship them to children. The OLPC really didn't have that much that made it uniquely suited for the job.

Sugar was "interesting" in the way that requires quotation marks when you say it, but it probably did more harm than good. It made a slow machine even slower and it certainly doesn't encourage practical computer skills. Children are clever. You don't need to make computers simple to make it easier for THEM to use.

That whole mesh WiFi thing was stupid idea. I'm told that it also killed the battery life.

I liked the clamshell-to-tablet design.