[Russ Smith]

I think you guys might be missing some of the implications here. This isn't like a Folio. A Folio was a Palm device built with the form-factor of a laptop. With the Folio, you got all the carrying difficulties of a lap-top with all the program functionality limitations of a PDA -- the worst of both worlds. This is an add-on that wirelessly allows your existing PDA to use a large screen, keyboard, mouse, and USB devices and includes the capability to send the video to an external monitor or projector. You'll pay about $200 for a device that allows you to (sort-of) give a PowerPoint presentation from your handheld, but you have to upload the presentation to the device and you're limited in terms of transitions, backgrounds, and can't do embedded video at all. With the REDFLY, you could do any presentation on your handtop without a lot of limitations.

I can understand owning a UMPC when you want/need the power of desktop applications or the compatiblity to run a certain program, but if you don't, you can get 8 hours of use out of the REDFLY on battery. What's the battery use time on the EEE? If you go with the UMPC-Smartphone/PDA combination, you're still going to want a full-sized keyboard, a full-sized monitor, a mouse, and you're still going to have to do all that @$#%&@% synching.

Finally, I can see a possible next move of making a REDFLY module to which you could plug in your monitor, your mouse, your keyboard, and your USB devices and could conceivably cost about $200. I'd buy that.