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I have one - a Dell Mini 9 with a 16GB SD drive (ie no hard disk). Absolutely superb machine for mobile e-mail, web browsing, etc. I take it away with me whenever I go away; it's about the size and weight of a hardback book.
Takes a while to get used to not having a hard disk. The machine is totally silent, which is a bit "spooky" at first.
16GB may not sound like much, but it's perfectly adequate for a "travel" machine. I have all my eBook creation tools on it, so I can create books "on the go", and I still have about 9GB free on it.
Makes a lousy bookreader - the "letterbox" format screen is just the wrong "shape", and if you turn it on its side, the keyboard gets in the way.
Some netbooks have a full-featured but very small keyboard. Dell go the other way, and have a restricted, but pretty-much full-size keyboard. Eg, there's no function key row - to get a function key you press a special "Fn" key together with one of the alphabet keys.
I'm very happy indeed with mine. Great little machine for mobile use.
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