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Speed is fine -- but I'm not watching video on it, and I'm only going to put a very few work-related things on it. You wouldn't want to overload the thing, I'm sure. OS is Windows XP. Oh, and I bought it with 2G ram, not the 1G it comes with. Boot up is pretty fast, but then again, I don't have much on it. I use it mainly as a web browser. Keyboard is very tiny -- nobody with big hands would be able to use it comfortably. My hands are about medium, and I still occasionally hit a wrong key.
Battery life is around 4 or 4 1/2 hrs. You can rotate the screen to see a full page pdf file, but it is very small (this is only a 9 inch screen.) However, the screen on the one I got is really bright, which I love -- I don't understand why people have said it's dim. It is way brighter than my everyday, older laptop. You could enlarge the pdf and read it of course.
The touch screen is nice -- I'm starting to use it more often. I don't use the silly (imho) software it came with, but I won't remove it until I'm sure it's useless. Seems nobody else really uses it either.
The build is very solid, very high quality. I'm quite fond of the little thing -- but I've never had a netbook before, so I can't compare it to others. It is going to be a useful tool that I can take to work and use for some things. For serious, long term work though, I'll stick with my 15" laptop.
Good luck, and be sure to post here if you do get the Archos. I've watched that one too.
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