WHICH IS WHY I’VE BEEN SO ENTHUSIASTIC about this trend: “Mini-laptop computers, typified by the popular ASUS Eee PC, have been derided by some analysts as little but low-cost toys. But they are changing the shape of the PC business throughout the world, bringing computing power to many who could never have afforded it. . . . As small laptop sales increase, their popularity is redefining the nature of the computing experience, taking it off the desk and making it an integral part of peoples’ lives, wherever they are.”