Why would that industry be worried? These machines aren't replacing more powerful laptops nor desktops: I bet people are buying them as an addition to a regular

Why would that industry be worried? These machines aren't replacing more powerful laptops nor desktops: I bet people are buying them as an addition to a regular computer. I was shopping for EeePC and reading reviews of it, and lots of people were saying just that - a cheap travel companion, not a laptop replacement. Hey, I myself was going to get it precisely for that reason. Price isn't as important, you can get "real" laptops for cheap. I paid $299 for Acer laptop for my parents: 1.7Gz Core Duo 2, 1GB ram, 15" LCD, 120GB HDD, big&usable keyboard. The whole thing is big, that's why it's cheap. The point here is size: these machines are painful to type on and screens are tiny for most kinds of work (be it documents, programming, image editing, etc). They're decent "time wasters" - youtube, reddit, etc.