Netbooks are not designed to replace your desktop or full size notebook; it’s there to complement it when you’re on the move. It’s always better to have a bigger screen but what tends to happen is that you don’t take the notebook with you because it’s too heavy and bulky. So the netbook screen is small compared to a notebook but much MUCH nicer than a cell phone. That’s the point of the netbook. Will you get tired working on it? I don’t know, that’s an individual thing. It doesn’t bother me too much for simple web browsing but I’m not going to be doing any kind of heavy duty workstation computing on it.

I’m curious how loud the 1000HE is. The Toshiba I’m working on now has an old Northwood 2.6ghz processor in it which, as you probably know, is a pretty hot processor even when it’s clocked down and idle. It’s a loud notebook not because it has too many cooling devices or because they were poorly designed, but because it is necessary to keep the thing from overheating even when it’s not really doing anything.

As I understand things, the processors that came after the Northwood and Prescott were better designed and on a smaller scale so that they run cooler, but how does that translate to the 1000HE and the Atom processor? From the power consumption you described I would assume that it’s fairly silent most of the time, but is it very quiet all of the time?

And what of suspend, it doesn’t sound like you’re talking about hibernation. Does this netbook support hibernation?

Is the keyboard backlit and was the screen size and display resolution an impairment to long periods of reading and general work?

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The other thing is that starter edition is meant to be the very lowest end SKU designed to really compete with free Linux options. I am guessing that it’s only a minor bump in price to get to the Windows 7 Home basic edition. For a product in the price range of the Asus 1000HE, I don’t believe it will be a major problem to sell it with Windows 7 Home Basic.