The price is a bit steep, but maybe. With a 3 second startup (or just resume from suspend? probably doesn't matter, as I'd expect it to stay in suspend for at least a week considering) and a 10 hour battery, it sounds a lot more handy than a netbook. Face it, an Atom processor is worthless for doing anything but browsing the web anyway.
Electronic parts were the only things distinguishing Radio Shack from a mall cell phone kiosk. Well, that and a collection of random Chinese junk from a Walmart electronics section with the prices jacked up.
Looks good. Reminds me of my old Toshiba Portege, except without the trackpoint. I wish they'd put in one instead, as well as decent-sized arrow keys. Unfortunately, the Canadian version will probably have a bilingual failboard like the first Aspire One, with a ridiculous and unnecessary key where the right half of the left shift key is supposed to be, and a bizarre upside-down return key.
Also, hopefully they'll keep the rectangular Enter key, even if they decide to sell it with a bilingual keyboad. The Aspire Ones in Canada have a bizarrely shaped upside-down Enter key and a \ key between it and the ' key. (As opposed to putting that key above the Enter key and beside the ] key.)
I bought a Toshiba L350, and the thing took at least a couple hours to get Vista ready (I should have used a stopwatch). Bizarrely, it ran DF slower than my 1.2 GHz Pentium M ultraportable on XP. I took it back, since not all the hardware was compatible with Ubuntu "out of the box".
"All of these new nettops have me intrigued. I'm looking for a small, quiet and cheap PC to replace my aging tower in my home office, and all it really needs to do is load Microsoft Office, check email and surf the web. Is there a particular nettop that's better (or a better value) than another? I know it's a rather new segment, but hopefully someone has taken a chance on one already. Thanks!"
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