[Tim Walsh]

I've got an EEE 701 that I've had for a year now, it goes with me just about everywhere. For office and internet applications it works great, my only grip is the smallish keyboard. I can type on it, but I don't think I'll be doing any major papers with it, the keyboard is just too cramped. OTOH the new Asus machines are much better(the 9xx and 10xxx models). The single shift key never bothered me, since I only use the left one anyways. The other issue I've run into is that photo processing is quite slow on it, but it's still usable for that unless you're running through thousands of photographs.

I think a netbook would work well, and would prevent all that junk that ends up on a machine after time since everythings already installed.