I went on ebay, and started a few days (weeks?) of intensive search.
It's amazing the number of adverts or sales posters for cheap out-of-China WinCE netbooks. I mean, come on! WinCE? Even smartphone manufacturers are moving away from WinCE. Why would anyone want such a netbook: crammed ram (256M), crammed space (1G), crammed apps, and no upgradability? Beats me, but there we are, ebay is full of them...
Between the HP, Asus, Acer, and other brands, I decided to go for the Acer Aspire One range: they've got decent hardware, lot of options, are upgradable, seem to go on for ever, and sell for a good price The thing is, all these netbooks sell like hot cake and I was constantly outbidded. Until I sneaked in to snap the netbook I now own.
I really like my Aspire One. I like its weight and size, the keyboard feel, the fact that it's got all those ports, that the display is very good, the sound is OK, and the webcam is fine.
I didn't like the OS it came with - Linpus - even if it was very fast and did a cool thing with SD card (automatically extend the system disk space by inserting the SD card).
So I decided to work on finding a nice OS for my nice little Netbook
