Shouldn't it be
Seeeshell!
Asus has launched its MacBook Air-style Eee PC 1008HA in Taiwan, and will do it all over again over here early next week, Register Hardware has learned. Asus Eee 1008HA Asus' Eee 1008HA: Air inspired? The skinny netbook measures between 18 and 26mm top to bottom, has a footprint of 262 x 178 and weighs 1.1kg - one of the …
Why do reporters always seem make comparisons using different units?
Golly, this 26mm thick Asus is up against the inch thick Acer.
WTF? Why don't you do the conversion instead of forcing god knows how many thousands of you readers to do it for you?
Paris wouldn't even notice an inch thick one I'm sure
Is it purely due to its thinness? Otherwise there are no similarities... one is a proper computer, the other is a Mac (boom boom!). Seriously though, they are completely different and aimed at different segments with completely different levels of capability...
Air is in the same group as the Voodoo Envy, Thinkpad X300 and Vaio TT or Z; this Eee is in with the S101 and NC10.