The mini laptop competition is heating up. I think HP may have lost sight of the appeal of these mini-laptops. Here's why the Asus EEE appeals to me (and others IMO):

1) Small
2) Lightweight
3) Inexpensive

While the Mini-Note hits the mark on the 1st point, it looks like HP sacrificed points 2 and 3 as a trade-off for power (specifically, the ability to run Vista). If I want to run Vista, I would get a full-size laptop. My sub-$300, 2lb, Linux-powered EEE suits my needs perfectly.

For me the Eee isn't quite perfect. The processor just isn't quite up to snuff in regards to video. Flash videos often stutter for me, and even downloaded videos sometimes have slow playback speeds. If it was just a little more powerful then it'd be perfect.

The Eee is definitely version 1.0 in this new line of sub-notebooks with tons of these coming out by a variety of companies starting this summer. The increased competition can only mean good things as prices will drop, quality will rise, and there will be an offering for practically everybody's specific situation.

Hmm, I'd agree with the above - but I'd say I don't really use the Eee PC for watching youtube and stuff - the screens pretty small as it is... or my wife for that matter (its her laptop really).

I can see wanting to do that, but flash has gotten increasingly processor intensive with subsequent versions, so I don't really expect that functionality out of such a cheap PC... if I were shelling out for the more expensive Eee PCs I would expect more though.

Well you can actually overclock the Eee, but from my initial research it looks like you need another OS than the default Xandros. If it gets too annoying for me, I'll probably just try a different operating system and overclock the processor. Right now I'm just waiting for the distros to get a bit more mature and user friendly. eeeXubuntu is looking promising.