Well, I got the Dell Mini 9. Tiny little toy-looking laptop. It's too soon to tell if I'll like it. Or if my goal of using this as my only laptop, and primary work machine will succeed. But what a lot of firsts and changes!

My first laptop with no moving parts. Yay!

My first completely silent laptop. Double yay!

First laptop I've bought with linux preloaded. The default Ubuntu load was ok. It also contains my name 886 times. :-) Scarily, it also runs bits of code I wrote for base-config.

Installing Debian went ok, mostly, though wireless is a bit of a pain, and I have a strange problem with something fiddling with LCD brightness periodically. Oh, and SHDC cards make it crash on boot and resume. I've set up a page with the details, including how to fix the missing punctuation keys.

I've switched to using white on black for my terminals, and run them full screen rather than tiled. Cause the screen is small, and doesn't handle large black expanses as well as I've been spoiled to expect by machines that cost three times as much.

I like that netbooks encourage minimalism.