I recently purchased an MSI Wind and am happy with it.
MSI Wind
U100-439US
1.6 GHz Atom n270
1 GB RAM
120 GB hard drive
10" screen
3-cell battery
I recently upgraded it to 2 GB of RAM just for shits and giggles.
Some thoughts so far: 3-cell batteries just don't cut it if you intend on taking this thing around without the charger. The battery lasts 1:30 with wi-fi on. That's horrible. Will last up to 2:30 with no wi-fi.
The portability is amazing - it's just amazing how light it is. The screen doesn't hinder too much, but it gets annoying sometimes because it's so wide and not tall. Lots of scrolling.
One MAJOR annoyance though: the touch pad is TERRIBLE. MSI recently changed their Synaptic touch pads over to Sentelic (I think that's the vendor) and they are horrible. WAAAY too sensitive, and the adjustments don't help. The worst part? TAP TO SCROLL FEATURE. You can't slide your finger vertically to scroll a web page - you have to tap either the top right or bottom right section of the pad to scroll, and have the time you miss the corner and end up clicking an ad instead. There is a mod to order the old Synaptic touch pad and change it out - as soon as they are back in stock I'm dismantling my Wind and doing it.
Lasereth will enjoy me bragging about this even more, but get a load of this (and keep in mind I bought this 3 months ago):
The netbook was $369.99 on eBay. I had a 10% off coupon from eBay on a single purchase. MSI also had a $50 rebate on the model on the last day the 10% coupon was active. Then, Microsoft's Live.com Cash Back was active for the vendor I purchased the laptop from (Multiwave Video) for 30% - bringing the total to $170, free shipping, no tax.
Yes, $170. VICTORY!!!!!!!
It pays to check Slickdeals.net 30 times a day I suppose.
Pic below of my Wind sitting next to a 17" LCD.
