Perhaps it's inevitable -- people react strongly to hyperbole, it gets them talking, it makes them curious, it's a quick way of making a subject hot. For years, every new MP3 player was met with speculation -- would it be an "iPod Killer?" Perhaps ASUS didn't release new hardware quickly enough before solid competition entered the market, but for a few months last year the term "Eee Killer" was thrown about. Yet, despite the bounty on their heads, iPods and Eees still exist, as do alternative devices.