Late to the party, but only just got to play with a couple of these, and I am impressed. Weight and size are a little larger than I was hoping for, but the keyboard is very comfortable. The trackpad is a nudge too small for comfort, even after whacking the resolution up to the highest, and the screen doesn't seem quite as nice as the glossy Dell Mini, which was my other contender. Still mulling it over. They each have their pros and cons. The Dell Mini's Fn keys aren't quite as annoying as I'd originally thought they'd be, although the lack of F12 means an external USB kbd is needed when PXE booting, if you ever do it. I'm just about swayed back to the idea of a mechanical HD by the 160GB Samsung jobby compared to the Dell 16GB SSD, which is way restrictive (after formatting, and full XP, Office 2003, and antivirus, expect barely 7GB left. nLite is your friend here!) and would have been an extra cost as I was planning on replcing it for a bigger one shortly after purchase anyway. And as for the people b1tching and whining about the age of XP; deal with it. There are more important things in life. The point of XP being based on an even older NT system is a valid one but kinda stupid considering the current incarnation of MacOS is considerably older (BSD anyone?), and Unix distros have a heart and soul to put both to shame. People who like easy set-ups, remote working, and quick and brutal hacks and fixes like XP on these machines; the complete control freaks who aren't happy unless they're reconfiguring the MTU size on their wlans like Linux flavours; and those users who like nothing more than sitting in Starbucks pretending to write the next War and Peace love MacOS. It's got nowt to do with age. The older of the three is the most configurable, the newest is easiest on the eye. Seems to be the way it's always been.
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Late to the party, but only just got to play with a couple of these, and I am impressed. Weight and size are a little larger than I was hoping for, but the keyboard is very comfortable. The trackpad is a nudge too small for comfort, even after whacking the resolution up to the highest, and the screen doesn't seem quite as nice as the glossy Dell Mini, which was my other contender. Still mulling it over. They each have their pros and cons. The Dell Mini's Fn keys aren't quite as annoying as I'd originally thought they'd be, although the lack of F12 means an external USB kbd is needed when PXE booting, if you ever do it. I'm just about swayed back to the idea of a mechanical HD by the 160GB Samsung jobby compared to the Dell 16GB SSD, which is way restrictive (after formatting, and full XP, Office 2003, and antivirus, expect barely 7GB left. nLite is your friend here!) and would have been an extra cost as I was planning on replcing it for a bigger one shortly after purchase anyway.
And as for the people b1tching and whining about the age of XP; deal with it. There are more important things in life. The point of XP being based on an even older NT system is a valid one but kinda stupid considering the current incarnation of MacOS is considerably older (BSD anyone?), and Unix distros have a heart and soul to put both to shame. People who like easy set-ups, remote working, and quick and brutal hacks and fixes like XP on these machines; the complete control freaks who aren't happy unless they're reconfiguring the MTU size on their wlans like Linux flavours; and those users who like nothing more than sitting in Starbucks pretending to write the next War and Peace love MacOS. It's got nowt to do with age. The older of the three is the most configurable, the newest is easiest on the eye. Seems to be the way it's always been.