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Asus eee
I'm writing this post from an Asus eee. It's quite a responsive little thing, though it didn't seem to like when I added some Debian repositories and installed preload on it.
My biggest gripe is the keyboard, but even after having used it for part of the day I feel more comfortable on it. I might even think it were a well-designed compact keyboard, were it not for the USB HHK Lite 2 that I recently acquired (which shows just how extraneous so many keys are). Worst part for me is how small the right shift key is. I suppose it exposes my bad typing form (but hey I type 90+ wpm on a normal keyboard so can't be too bad).
A large improvement could be made by using Vimperator with Firefox, and just sticking to the terminal for everything else. I could see myself using vim (included!) to write LaTeX documents on here. With Firefox F11-ed, things are just browsable -- although this site looks pretty much perfect to me (then again, this site is tested for elinks.
Anyway, it's by no means perfect -- and to my mind not all that different from what I was doing with a Palm IIIe or so and a collapsable keyboard -- but it's still a nice device. Perhaps the best thing is that it's cool enough to bring some new users to Linux. I'll not be buying one, but hopefully it will prove reliable enough to impress some poor Windows/Mac people.