I recommend something more mainstream with acer or asus. They're cheap and good manufacturers of netbooks. I prefer buying asus netbooks, but the second generation acer aspire ones are really good too.
I got myself the 900ha eeepc from asus with a 4 cell battery (6 cell is much nicer, but 4.5 hours of battery time on 4 cell for me is just fine enough). Same thing as the 901 pretty much except for different wlan card and has a full sized laptop hard drive which i much prefer to the low quality and sometimes reman flash drives in use on the eeepcs with solid state drives that die in either 1 or 6 months time.
Get a netbook with a real hard drive if you don't want to worry about an internal flash drive dying especially if it's of low quality.
Personally my sandisk and pny 4gb usb thumb drives are magnitudes of higher quality and reliability than the solid state drive that was inside my first netbook the eeepc 901 (it's 16gb internal flash drive died in a month). Now you see why i wanted a netbook with an actual hard drive (plus the hard drive is easily replaceable).
As far as what i do with my netbook. I do almost absolutely everything that i do on here compared to my core 2 duo laptop. The integrated intel graphics on todays netbooks are more capable than people give them credit for. I can run warcraft 3 just fine, openarena on medium settings, and vanilla fs2 runs ok too. I usually play old games anyway so there's no beef here with me. The 1.6ghz nano processor is very good, close to the speed of a pentium 4 but not quite. The processor is also hyperthreaded and overclockable, some people overclock there netbooks to 2ghz or a little past sometimes (helps the integrated graphics especially).
I also shoved 2gb of memory in this sucker and plopped mepis 8.0 on here and do my usual 20+ tabs in firefox and instant messaging at the same time with pidgin and gyachi. This thing can also play movies of dvd quality very good. You can play hi def on here, but holy crap do you lose frames (so far the only thing this netbook isn't good at all).
This computer is small, lightweight, great battery life, comes with a little netbook padded case that you put the netbook into when you toss it into your backpack, it's fast enough, and can be an openarena server for 8 others or more in lan parties.
Great buy. Also netbooks famously come with a webcam, microphone, line out, mic in, 3 usbs, vga out, sd card reader, a/b/g wifi, and gigabit ethernet.
Also, the keyboard being small, i don't care, i have relatively small hands and keyboard without using my index fingers. I have typed up many 6 page essays my past college semester with this thing in openoffice just great.
It's a big benefit because going on a trip i just put this thing in my backpack and don't need anything crazy like a specialized laptop bag that bigger laptops famously need. I go on a trip of any kind and i have awesomely portable computing power. Also i don't need to bypass my campuse's computer security all over the campus in any computer lab via liveusb anymore (not joking they make you change your password every 3 weeks up here, i'm not surprised i forgot what the last password of 5 i cycled through was, and campus inability to reset my account). Oh well, b4 the netbook i had non authenticated computer lab usage sessions because of not needing to login just to use the net via liveusb (live media has some great advantages).
I'm done this is as possibly as much info from experience and knowledge i have about netbooks.
