scrumpypaul:
very much horses for courses
if typing is important - try some of the bigger netbooks with bigger kepyboards
for a general purpose machine i think you may be better off with a standard laptop, if you can be bothered lugging around the bit of extra weight
plus that would give you a lot of extra features, such as ability to play dvd's etc
I don't mind the smaller ones as I like the small keyboards anyway. I already have a laptop but don't want to be carrying it around because of the size. I have seen some of the acer, samsung and HP links but just wondering if there is anything else out there along similar lines or better.