I have the MSI Wind U100 and love it, mainly due to ergonomics--the matte screen is easy on the eyes and the keyboard is comfortable, though the touchpad takes some getting used to. At $300 it was just inside my price range. If I were buying now and had another $100, I'd probably go for the Asus 1000HE, for the battery life. The EeePC keyboards were a dealbreaker when I was looking, but they fixed them on models from the HE onward.
As far as hard drive space, as long as you have another main machine, I'd give some thought to how you're going to use a netbook. If you're planning to dump every song and video from you main PC onto it, maybe you need a big HDD, but if all you plan on carrying are books, documents, pictures, and the occasional movie, you'd probably be fine with a cool, silent 16GB SSD + removable media. I'm currently using 21GB of 120, and 11GB of that is comics >_> If costs come down on SSDs with decent write speeds (and I get less broke), I will likely be swapping out my HDD. Not that heat or noise are even noticeable half the time, but when you're reading in a silent room, the disk spinning up is a little distracting.
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Originally Posted by GeoffC
Thought I'd be clever and do a sole Ubuntu install on an old lappie. Process removed XP and forgot to install Ubuntu. Now lappie insists with no OS, no booting up .... I fear the disc partitioning has exposed existing HDD problems and the poor thing has died on me.....though i'm still persevering with one or two options to see if I can do "CPR" on it....
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I did the same thing to an old laptop :P It'll boot to BIOS but won't install an OS. It'll even boot to an Ubuntu Live CD, but won't get through an install. Probably hard drive issues, though the DVD drive behaves oddly, too.