I was finally able to get my hands on one of these tiny netbooks. Even though I knew the dimensions beforehand, I was still a bit taken back seeing the device in person. Next to my four year old Gateway, this thing is almost a third of the size.

I’ve only had a few hours to test so far, and not too much of it has been constant typing such as I’m doing now for this blog entry. It’s not too terrible if you throttle yourself back a little bit, and don’t get too frustrated after missing a few keys. That said, it’s still not something that I would want to type on for more than a few paragraphs.

One feature that sticks out to me so far is the suspend feature of the laptop. It works, and very quickly. Total wake up time is less than ten seconds. Close it and forget it.

This unit does get a little warm. Not as bad as a typical low-midrange laptop model, but you do feel it. The fan inside is very quiet, and very occasionally do you hear it spin up to full speed

to be continued