Eee PC and online storage
Here’s an idea, and one I should have talked about sooner. As a cloud computing device, the Eee PC is the perfect example of a device that should take advantage of online storage.
Not only should mini-laptop, or Internet access devices be leveraging online software suites like Google Docs, Zoho Office, or ThinkFree, but also online storage as well. Services like Box.net, Microsoft’s SkyDrive, and AOL’s XDrive (thanks to Kevin Tofel for reminding me of it) all offer up free storage with options for additional storage as a premium service.
AOL’s XDrive is really exciting to any Eee PC device loaded with Windows XP as AOL offers a utility to map a drive directly to your storage account. All three of these options (I’m sure there are others I’m not aware of) will work with either IE or Firefox and with Windows or Linux, so even if you don’t try to have a mapped drive, you can easily upload/download files as needed to any of these services.
Just one more way to solve the data storage concerns for potential Eee PC users.
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Comment by Rick Mahn Simpsons, the real value of the Eee comes in when you leverage some other tools and look at it from a different point of view. If all it has to do is to quickly connect you to the web for browsing, email, IM and a few other minor communications items - then it doesn’t matter that it has minimal hardware resources. The light weight and nearly “instant on” capability brings new usefulness to a a minimalistic PC doesn’t it?
I hadn’t really considered the Eee as a serious contender when looking for an ultraportable, but when I read features like your own then I am more and more convinced.