well...my better half wasn't to happy with the laptop... It apparently had nothing to do with gnome but simply that it was to small and light!
So I gave her a older asus laptop... Pentium M 2GHz single core, 1GB of ram. Nice 1650*10?? 4/3 monitor... I set it up to run LXDE + claws mail, and everything is insanely fast... she is using leafpad as text editor! and she is finally happy with her GNU/linux install... I am now setting up another laptop with LXDE for her co-worker :)
