Santa brought my wife and I a HPMini 210 netbook computer for Christmas. My wife wanted a netbook to replace the larger laptop we were using in our living room and so she could take it to school with her to use during her breaks between classes. I wanted a netbook for the occasional vacation. Neither of us could come up with enough reason to buy one but luckily Santa brought us one!
So far I’ve been pretty happy with it. I hacked the 1024×600 display so that it works at 1152×864. That helped add some screen real estate. So far my only gripes are that the buttons on the mouse pad are sort of sticky and you can’t touch them while also sliding the mouse with the other hand. That is annoying. I haven’t really pushed the battery life or processor so I can’t say much about them. For web surfing and document writing this ~$300 model works very well.
Monty Kamath 