Great comparison table...
Comparing 4GB SSD to 80GB HD seems a mite ridiculous. Granted, it covers the non-volatile storage media on both machines, but it becomes a little more involved when you consider that 1) the Eee's 4GB SSD is pretty much the biggest solid-state device that could conceivably have been issued as of late 2007 while keeping the machine's price impressively low and 2) the question of solid-state storage applies acutely to the Macbook Air, which (for the equivalent price of another TWO Eees) can be bought with 64GB of it. When 64GB SSDs finally do come to the component market in 2008, the price will undoubtedly be battered down over only a few months, whereupon I'll be able to put a 64GB mini-PCI-E SSD unit in the expansion slot on the bottom of my Eee without breaking too much of a financial sweat, while Air-buyers will probably still have to lower their trousers and bend over for a similar, but Apple-orientated privilege.
It would have been equally subjective and unhelpful to have included a row on your table marked "Solid State Storage?" - of course you could have gone a bundle on leading the reader by asking "Moving drive-heads which might dislodge in the event of a bump while the machine is suspended?" and then "How much needs to be paid to avoid this?". But I digress, unnecessarily facetiously.
Finally, and perhaps to show that I'm not unreasonably biased towards Asus' fantastic little machine (despite the Air appearing to be a pointless load of shite marketed exclusively towards coffee-shop-squatting wretches with money to burn), I should remark that the Eee doesn't *really* come with an analogue (or even an 'analog'!) modem in most/all regions. The port hole is there, plugged with rubber, but there's no circuitry behind it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
