I've just bought an Aspire One -- the Linux edition. The price ($320 after cashback from catchoftheday.com.au) couldn't be beat, although this one has the Intel (slow) SSD. The Linux version that's on there (Linpus) is a bit of a pain, so I installed Xubuntu instead.
I went to Bing Lee first to try typing on all the sub notebooks. The HP had the nicest keyboard; followed by the Aspire. They didn't have an MSI Wind to play with. major advantages: very light weight (<1Kg); 2.5hrs battery (or, I'm told, 6 with the larger battery one can buy) very cheap, reasonably put together, three USB slots and two SD card readers (you can apparently stick a 16G SDHC card in to triple your disc; the Linpus distribution mounts it as unionFS over /home, but I haven't played with it yet on Xubuntu). Major disadvantages: Need out-of-tree wireless driver, slow SSD, shiny case is a fingerprint magnet. Must buy larger battery for longer life. Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
