Agreed, the EEE (on which I write this) has surprisingly short battery life for such a limited device. However, the SSD more than makes up for the battery cons

Agreed, the EEE (on which I write this) has surprisingly short battery life for such a limited device. However, the SSD more than makes up for the battery consumption by being silent, blazingly fast and mad robust (this is my four year old son's computer and he can drop it on the floor while the disk is running without killing it). I can't wait for SSDs to become standard.