I have had this little machine for almost 2 weeks now. I really like it. It took me about 3 days before I got brave enough to pop off all of the keycaps and rearrange them for the dvorak instead of qwerty layout.
I never bothered with the XP garbage that came with it. I immediately installed Fedora 10 from a USB thumb drive. I ordered it on Feb 17 and was lucky enough to get one with the 6 cell 5800mh battery. (Lasts more than 6 hrs under normal use on battery power. I have not bothered to time it since making some power related optimizations)
The 10 inch display is high quality. I am really hoping that somebody comes out with 1024x768 or better resolution in the same form factor though. I like the keyboard and think it is about as small as you can get and still do proper touch typing. (One of the best things about it is that it does not come with a crippled right shift key like many other netbooks) The atom 270 is not a bad processor but the Intel chipset that supports it is apparently pretty wasteful.
I could not wait.... But if this is a taste of what's to come around the next corner when ARM-based systems become available in the same form factor I can't wait!
In the meantime this is about as portable as you can get and still have a usable keyboard. They struck a great balance with this little netbook.
Ditto to what one of the other reviewers said about the touchpad buttons being ridiculously hard to push... I am still getting used to that quirk... (But I would still get the same system if I had it to do over again.)
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