I actually recently replaced my laptop with an Acer Aspire One. It was under $400 and came preloaded with linux (linpus lite). I don't care for that distro of linux but Ubuntu is releasing a new version at the end of October that has support for netbooks like this that run on the Intel Atom processor. I'll be changing it them.
I like the portability of the little laptop and the keyboard on it is larger than the eee pc (which is important if you plan to do any sort of typing for more than a sentence on it).
Alternately - the HP Mini-Note 2133 is more expensive, but it has an even larger keyboard and is geared more to professionals in appearance.
None of these have any sort of optical drive, though, which can be a major drawback - particularly if you do go with a windows OS. At least with Linux, most of the programs are free and can just be downloaded and installed from a USB key.
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