uni:
with these netbooks, i presume you can plug in an external 3.5" USB NTFS drive and play mp3s, flac, divx etc?
I have plugged in an external DVD-Rom drive fine.. there should be no problems with mp3 and divx, (Flac i have no real experiance with so not sure how much cpu power listening to that use). Obviously if you are getting into HD rips, it would struggle I guess, but xvid would be fine.
uni:
and plug in a three mobile dongle and go online with that (if you are in a non wifi area)?
I Have a 3mobile dongle, works fine.
uni:
and of course surf on the train with wifi?
One of the reasons I bought my netbook so I hope so! (Didn't know trains did wifi, hence the 3mobile dongle!)