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Just back from a day in London.  Came back with a new bundle of joy and it was unplanned... the Eee PC 900!  £315 on Tottenham Court Road (it's the "electronics district").  There's loads available, by the way.

When asked whether I wanted the Linux or Windows XP version, I didn't hesitate - Linux!  Had to be Linux!

Why?  Well after a week with my parents new Vista laptop and nearly 5 years experience of my XP desktop, I wanted a laptop that didn't have constant security alerts, updates, patches and all that nonsense.   I didn't want hundreds of different ways to do the same thing.   I didn't want a whole bunch of crap preloaded.  I just wanted my old Eee PC experience back...

...Once it's charged up they'll be lots of work to be done as, although it may seem to go against what I've just said, I need to put it in "Advance Mode" and do a bunch of tweaking.  I'll also have to get my trial 3 Mobile Broadband dongle working which will probably mean a bit of Googling as Linux (in all it's flavours) isn't officially supported.

Another reason to go for the Linux version... way more storage built in for the same price.  Ironic really, as XP probably needs it more!