If you're using a tool, you're no longer "remembering" :-)

I have the B202 Linux version running Ubuntu as my media PC. Newegg has this for $299 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220012&cm_re=eee_box-_-83-220-012-_-Product). I am pretty happy with it as a media device. Super quite and under 20W average power usage (http://event.asus.com/eeepc/microsites/eeebox/en/features-green.html). It doesn't do 1080p but (there's a new EB1006 that does). It's not useful as a home server (only 160GB of built-in hard disk). It does have 4 USB ports, so external USB disks is an option (but that will add to the power usage).

I count my esoteric collection of PDAs and laptops as my toys. These include (in chronological order as far as I can remember) - a Spectrum Plus, a Handspring, a Treo 180, two Treo 90s, a Sony Clie, a Treo 600, a Treo 650, a Sharp Zaurus SL6000, a Nokia N800, an Acer Apsire One, an Eeebox, a Thinkpad X61s and lately a Nokia E63 mobile phone. Obviously not all of them are in working order :-).

I guess I am one of the unlucky folks out there. I have Vista on a Thinkpad X61. No crashes really, but a really peculiar problem. Every few days it will apply patches and reboot. A long, long time to apply the patches and reboot. I login, then a black screen (no BSOD) with a cursor for hours. Tired of waiting, I come back later to see my screen locked. Login again, same black screen. Reboot the box, boot in safe mode, login. Shutdown and restart in normal mode and everything is fine. I've googled for this for hours without any solution. This happens every few days, why Vista has to reboot for every other patch it applies I have no clue - Vista is slow but almost bearable without the reboots.

"Ready for the desktop" my ass:

Hope the rest of your gets ready too :-).

Nice try. I have Vista running on two laptops - one with 1.5G of RAM and the other with 2G of RAM. I've had a miserable experience on both. Vista is slow to boot, slow to copy files, slower to connect to a wireless network - you name it it's performance is poor. Luckily, I have bought personal copies of WinXP before MS stopped selling it in retail for both laptops. One of these days frustration will reach a level when I'll wipe out the miserable Vista "experience" and replace it with WinXP.