The ASUS Eee PC did more than pioneer a new breed of notebook; it required a new name to describe its class. While some have lumped the Eee PC, the HP Mini-Note, and their ilk into the UMPC and ultraportable categories, we politely disagree. These “mini-notebooks” have distinct sizes, weights, and features that separate them from the other small notebooks on the market.

Standalone GPS navigators have come down in price drastically, but if you’ve already got an Eee PC with Windows on it, why shell out more money? The small system from ASUS is the ideal size to ride shotgun and provide turn-by-turn directions and detailed maps.

I was reading Liliputing blogger Brad Linder’s experiences with the HP Mini-Note this morning and became increasingly jealous of his Mini-Note running Windows XP (his system was originally running Open SuSE). It isn’t so much that I dislike Vista (in fact, my Sony VAIO FZ which I am giving up for the Mini-Note for the next few days runs Vista Home Basic), but it seriously effects boot up time.

It’s finally time to get rid of your notebook, but what about all that data you have stored on your hard drive? Is it safe to just reformat and toss it? Will anyone actually take the hard drive out from the dump? It may scare you how easy it is to retrieve your personal files.