Help me, hivemind!

[sabotabby]

A bunch of you have netbooks. What do you recommend? I want to get one for my eventual travels: Light, durable, and as powerful as possible within those constraints.

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[misslynx.livejournal.com]

if u are just using it for internet..microsoft office..etc then u might as well get the ubuntu operating system instead of windows, the performance is better and the interface is not too different.

I actually found the interface (at least on the netbook remix) to be more Mac-like than Windows-like, but that was a plus from my perspective. :-)

And I was surprised to find the learning curve really minimal - it was very, very easy to get used to. Most programs work pretty much exactly like their Mac or Windows equivalents, and anything that didn't was fairly self-explanatory. Also, the installer was a thing of beauty - really easy, streamlined, intuitive, fully explained any decisions I needed to make, and pretty to look at as well.