(Pic courtesy of Asus) If you've been wanting to purchase a laptop but have been holding out until one is designed by a child of the Nile, your long wait is over. Karim Rashid, the Egyptian-American designer responsible for the , has . (Rashid is also responsible for , one of my all-time favourite pieces of design, truly the iPod of coffee tables.) At $500 these puppies aren't the cheapest netbooks going around, but unlike most small laptops, these ones are not horrifically ugly. And compared to that other $500 mini-computer that has everybody's attention, these netbooks are not .