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Asus seems to be marketing the Eee Note EA800 (to give it its full name) as a student's tool. When I was a university student, I produced lots of notes, so this device would not have been competitive with pen and paper (although I would certainly have liked to be able to read books on the bus, and browse the web, and have all of my university books and notes in my bag at any time!).
However, times have changed. Nowadays many professors use projected presentations for their lessons, and usually these are available to students in advance as pdf files. So I suppose that being able to jot notes on the very same pdf presentation page that the professor is talking about, and then having both the presentation and one's own notes in digital form -and perfectly synchronized- without further work, would be a huge bonus.
Finally, as an engineer I find such a device extremely interesting. To be able to sketch something at any time and have the sketch immediately available in digital form, as well as to create a library of my ideas in sketch form, is an attractive proposition. I am much less interested in OCR capabilities, instead.
As I wrote before in this thread, if only the battery life of the EA800 had been longer, I would happily have bought one instead of the ebook reader that I just purchased (I was mainly looking for a book-reading device for my free time).
Waiting for next generation, then :-)
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