Samsung NC10 (NP-NC10-KA02UK) Netbook

Wonderful out of box, works well, relatively user friendly, and I like the samsung recovery III that creates mirror images of your hard drive so that data can be recovered in the event of a crash. 

Screen was small (downgrading from a 17' sony VAIO) but was brighter than my former £1200 VAIO. 

Webcam also works better than the sony inbuilt webcam, but alarm bells started ringing when I realised that this was the ONLY laptop that I have ever seen with a webcam but no warning light. Ie, you could be broadcasting webcam and not realise that you are on webcam as there is no warning light beside the camera like what most other laptops have. 

Word processing is a slight pain as you can see very small area of the document. Fortunately, graphics card can support a large external screen. I managed to stick a sony 19 inch screen or a dell 19 inch screen onto it and its as good as any desktop, as long as I dont try to play some 3D game. 

But overall, I am happy that I waited and got this instead of the eeepc 1000 which I had tried and found very disappointing.