[BotageL]

I'm really happy with my EEE1000HD, the ghetto 900mhz non-Atom Best Buy model from a while back. For taking notes, writing papers, and web browsing it's pretty awesome. Unfortunately, since it's non-Atom, I can only get about 3 hours per charge with the wireless switched on, but I imagine in the 8-ish months since I got this thing that the Atom ones are all of comparable prices again. I actually haven't gotten around to trying many games on here, probably because I'm usually busy using it for vaguely productive tasks, and Diablo II is a real fuckin' pain on a touchpad anyway.

For laughs, I installed the first official Windows 7 beta on it a while back when I had to reformat anyway, and while it works pretty well I hit on a rather obvious problem which I'm hoping is fixed in later W7 builds, where an error with the way it handles old XP video drivers (which are the only ones available for my laptop's chipset) causes the system to freeze any time a program tries to play a video file. (Except for VLC, because VLC has its own video playback code and completely ignores your codecs, which is handy for this stuff.) It does seem a bit sluggish sometimes, but I'm not sure if that's W7 or the processor's fault. I do know that The GIMP takes something like two minutes to actually finish loading after I launch it, which isn't so bad since I can keep doing other stuff while I wait for it to load.
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[BotageL]

I find the 10" is pretty much the perfect netbook size, where it's really easily portable and lightweight but still very usable. Any smaller, and typing on the tiny little keyboards becomes a chore. I used to have a big ol' 14" or 15" Dell laptop that was far more powerful, but after using my EEE for months, it's hard to remember how I used to tolerate lugging that behemoth around campus when I never needed that much power. The higher resolution screen would be nice if I installed CS4 on it, maybe.
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