So, I've got some money burning a hole in my pocket and I'm quite keen on getting a netbook / small formfactor notebook.
The big box retailers seem to have Acer Aspire Ones and some HP thing on the shelves. I've heard less than complimentary things said about HP's laptops and I'd prefer to stay away from them. Would you care to recommend anywhere I should consider buying from and any hardware I should consider? My preferences are for something that works with Linux out of the box, reasonable RAM and excellent battery life. I'll most likely be removing any OS provided and replacing with some flavour of Linux. An OS-free netbook seems to be hard to find but would be preferred. Commercial touting happily accepted, but might be better offlist. Cheers, Roy.
