Got this primarily to use as a portable dev box, replaced my 14" Dell. Good bits: it's much smaller and lighter than it looks (cut a 14" Dell in two, and you get the idea of how small this thing is---it fits in my coat pocket). Bad bits: not much free flash memory, keyboard is a bit small-ish, and some keys are annoyingly placed (right shift and up arrow key get confused too often, as well as quote).
The laptop comes with `kid-friendly' user interface, but can be easily switched to `advanced mode'; which is essentially KDE. You get 1.4Gigs free of flash memory, and using apt-get, can install (among other things): gcc, jdk, vim, apache, php, mysql, audacious, firefox, etc. (ie: anything a linux user might want). RAM is a limitation---as far as I know, there's no swap partition, so if you have a bit too many things running, you'll get weird coredumps from time to time.
Doesn't support WPA2 out of the box, otherwise wireless (with WPA) works just fine. Webcam is pretty sharp and clear (on par with midrange quickcams), and microphone is pretty useful.
Processor is fast enough to play xvid video full screen (from flash drive---though it's not like you'll be storing too much of that on that small disk). I've read about folks playing Quake3 on it. The screen resolution for external (vga) output is pretty decent---used it with projector.
Recognizes external drives without problems. Automounts stuff, etc. For a linux box, I'm actually quite surprised that ``everything just works'' (unlike my desktop---that takes pain and struggle to get stuff working).
If you want an easy to carry, small and semi-rugged laptop for word-processing or coding---primarily when on the go (on subway, etc.) then this box is it. The few hundred megabytes of flash memory you'll have free is plenty for documents or source code.
Will likely upgrade next year for the 10" screen version (hopefully with more ram and bigger flash drive---the processor is more than enough for my needs).
UPDATE (~1 week ownership): I accidentally dropped the laptop onto a concrete floor from about 4 feet (my backpack zipper b0rked, and the whole thing just smacked onto the concrete). The laptop is still in one piece (sturdy little thing), but the camera stopped working. Everything else appears to function perfectly (if this was my Dell, I can imagine collecting pieces of it off the floor). It does have a rather nasty dent on the corner that hit the concrete, but it's not something I care much about. So... this little thing is pretty damn rugged!
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