It can probably be made to work, however you should be comfortable hacking around in Linux. The EeePC uses a custom Linux distribution, so installing software could be difficult (I don't actually know). It is said to have 1.3GB free space out of the box, of which Maple will use 650MB. It has a 900MHz low voltage Intel chip and 512MB of RAM, so the Java interface is going to be very slow and possibly unusable. The classic interface should be fine for you to use but it is very obsolete if you need to open other peoples' worksheets. If you just use the classic or command line interfaces then the EeePC would be a nice little machine. 800x480 is a very low resolution though.

For what it's worth, I used to run Maple 10 on a 133MHz Pentium w/ 48MB of RAM. It was quite slow but it did the job admirably. I found the 800x600 resolution to be a little constricting, so I'm not sure about 800x480. The EeePC has ten times more CPU and memory, so it should actually run Maple quite well. Just don't expect too much from it. It won't be fast. You won't want to run the Java interface. The small screen will be annoying. But at $400 and 2 lb you can take it anywhere.

For what it is worth, I was able to install and run the Maple Standard GUI on an Asus Eee 701 (4 GB SSD and 512 MB RAM).  The space is pretty tight on the SSD, so I installed to an ext2 formatted SDHC card, but if you started with a full 1.3 GB free, you would probably have enough space to install it directly to the SSD.  If you just have the 700MB free for Maple, you can play some games to use a USB stick or SD card as tmp space,  and still install just fine.

Anyway, I plan to mostly run TTY maple on this.  Some initial tests show that it is about 1/4 to 1/3 the speed of my Core2 desktop machine running some solve() benchmarks.

John