The lowdown on Asus' Eee PC?

From David Meyer's Communication Breakdown column in ZDNet.co.uk Thursday 6 September 2007, 3:19 PM -

... The full specs etc will come out early next week, but it seems certain that you'll be able to buy one from the middle of October, at the price of £199 for a 10GB-solid-state-drive-sporting model.

Just to recap, the LED-backlit screen measures 7", it has Wi-Fi and a webcam, it runs Linux (a special version worked out between Asus and Intel, no less), it comes with OpenOffice, FireFox and other open-saucy goodness preinstalled, and it also lets the user choose between skins that oddly enough resemble Windows XP, OSX and so on. Startup time is about 5 seconds and - get this - the battery life is a whopping 10 hours.

Asus' rep has told me the Eee has no direct target market as such, but is sort of the "consumer version" of Intel's fabled $100 laptop-for-developing-countries project thingy...

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10G flash? 10 hours of battery life? Sounds too good to be true. Must be some kind of communication breakdown somewhere...