Asus Eee review
For $399, you get a wickedly good, highly portable Linux-based laptop. Check out the review over at Laptop Magazine and Hot Hardware. With an solid state drive, LED backlit LCD, 4 USB ports, VGA-out, expansion slot for SD/Memory Stick, and room for a PCI-Express mini card, this looks perfect for the sysadmin on the go.
Hot Hardware says the 4GB SSD version is $199 but the prices on eBay are $400 .
Since it’s running Linux, I’m wondering if there is a way to bypass the GUI and run it at the command line which would make it a good way to learn the OS. Also can it handle SSH/Telnet clients like Putty and sCRT. It would be nice to be able to walk into the server room with the mini-laptop in one hand and console directly to a server using sCRT.
You can run a terminal app natively, and it does have an openssh client.