A properly-configured SSD-based laptop running XP or some linux flavour can easily boot in 10 seconds. Similar improvements are possible in Vista and 7. Are you trying to say that's not beneficial? What about when you are out and about and you need to make a quick tweak to a word document, or a presentation? Or if you're at airport security and someone asks you to boot your machine up to make sure it's not a bomb? With suspend-to-disk it's even quicker, as you rightly pointed out.

And that's ignoring all of the other benefits - less chance of failure, cooler, better battery life, more shock-resistant, etc, etc

Someone who wants a fast-booting, reliable, rugged laptop with good battery life will see a massive advantage. Believe it or not, that's the majority of students and business users. Ever wonder why the EEEs were so popular?

That already exists. Ever tried to replace an iPod/iPhone battery? Sure, it's possible, but Apple make this as difficult as they can for you. I always have held the belief that iPods/iPhones are defective by design.

Actually, MSN Search was much older than three years 2 months and a day when they replaced it with Bing.

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Type a report, essay, or document perhaps? I'd pay good money to see what your thumbs looked like afterwards.

A Sub-Notebook is what this is: Small and light, yes, but certainly not cheap. Examples of this would include the MacBook Air.

Sub-Notebooks have been around pretty much since notebooks have been around (as demonstrated in some of the other comments in this thread). Netbooks are a recent phenomenon beginning with the EEE. Just my $0.02

I'd heard of an Android called Data ...is that the same thing?