The price is right on the edge of what most people are willing to pay for a micro-laptop. However, the specs, even for the older 7″ machine, are impressive on a machine that size.
As far as wifi goes, The problem you were running into is the particular edition of Linux that the EEEPC runs. Other versions of Linux don’t require a logon every time. (I use Ubuntu Linux 7.10 on a Thinkpad T42 and I never have to log into my wireless. It just picks it up and goes.)
Also keep in mind that Linux will also run a bit faster on the EEEPC than Windows will, and you can get the same software that the EEEPC comes with (Ubuntu installs with Open Office by default, as do many other versions of Linux.)
Personally, I’m hoping that the Via reference design micro-notebook will become commercially available in the US soon. It should hit around the same price point, but will be available to lots of small companies to customize with whatever OS they want to sell and slightly more robust hardware than even the eee900.
