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With its leather-clad palm rest, this 2.7-pound laptop is a good choice, but it lacks an integrated optical DVD burner drive.

The Asus U1F-1P016E is a truly an ultraportable that weighs 2.7 pounds and tapers in the front of the case to a thin five-eighths of an inch tall. A lustrous black lid and real leather palm rest add to its appeal. So what’s not to like? The speed and keyboard layout are so-so, the optical drive isn’t built in, and the $2199 price (as of 6/6/07) is high.

The One Laptop Per Child XO laptop may be getting lots of attention as the Give 1, Get 1 program is set to begin. But the Asus Eee PC, designed for kids and older, novice PC users is garnering very good early reviews. Laptop Magazine says the $400 Linux-OS PC is versatile and easy to use. It’s not meant to go head-to-head with bargain Windows-based laptops. It’s meant to be a simple-to-use PC for surfing the web, making Skype calls, and writing and saving some work documents. Unlike the OLPC XO laptop and the Intel Classmate, which are designed to provide children in the developing world with access to computers, Asus is selling the Eee PC to one and all.