The 4 gig system partition is full and the 16 gig data partition is mostly unused. I’ll probably repartition the drive for a six or eight gig system drive. It has an SD slot, so that is an easy, fast, and fairly cheap way to add more storage space if I would need it.

These are the older models with the 8 inch screens, so their main usefulness is in their small size and portability. I’m currently using a flexible, rollup style full keyboard and a small travel mouse with one. It’s still much smaller and lighter than my laptop.

For short trips, it has the functionality I need. Between Star office and Google Docs, I have most of what I need. I even have Picasa loaded and that covers a lot of the basic photo editing needs. I wrote the latest post to this blog using Star Office and the netbook’s keyboard while flying across country. The thing fits on an airplane tray table with room to spare. I just cut and pasted the post into wordpress when I had an Internet connection.

Add in some more memory(easy to jump from 512mb to 2gb) and it starts to look like a real laptop..

Of course, by then it costs as much as fullsize laptop too.