The geeks are smitten with Asus' Eee. And with upgraded models on the horizon, things are only bound to get worse (better?).

By now, we all know of its allure: svelte proportions, a flash drive, seemingly eternal battery life. Specs aside,  however, Dwight Silverman at the Houston Chronicle observed another of its charms...

When it arrived at my desk, that's when the parade began. Five of chron.com's Web site developers trekked up to see the notebook, oohing and aahing over it. Then Kyrie O'Connor, our deputy managing editor for features and author of the MeMo blog (blogs.chron.com/memo), saw it and began making strange cooing sounds.

In fact, O'Connor made a second visit to my desk while I wasn't there but the Eee PC was. I found her sitting quietly, stroking it like a lost kitten.

A few days later, she ordered one, in pink.

Read Eric Grevstad's review over at Hardware Central to see why it's always king of Amazon's bestselling laptops list.