Dell mini 10v

Coolness
1) With a 6 cells battery, this thing last a full day!
2) Jaunty supports hibernation, faster boot and *way* faster wifi connection. Hardy was way too slow to connect back to the wifi network.
3) If you take a colored top, you get the webcam for free. Mostly useless on a Atom processor anyway. :)

Issues
1) It took me a day to figure out how to page up/down key; kind of necessary when programming. Hint: FN key.
2) No video acceleration for the 945GME / GMA 950 until Karmic Koala 9.10. This video card is too unstable with UXA to be usable. That's quite disapointing.
3) The touchpad default configuration isn't great, I highly recommend a Logitech Nano VX.
4) With the 6 cells battery, the laptop is not level, making it hard to look at the monitor while the laptop is on a table and you are straight up. This is due to the fact that the monitor doesn't bend backward enough.
5) The dell ubuntu comes with Fluendo codecs and a custom shell launcher. My wife liked the launcher but the one in NBR is fine enough for her. TODO The codecs can be imported back into the new install if you install both OS side by side.

Survival kit
1) Install Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 netbook remix (NBR). This netbook has a SDHC card reader so you can put it on a memory card from the stock ubuntu install.
2) Fix the palm check otherwise the mouse is constantly moving while typing on the keyboard.
Temporary fix:

DEVICE="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
xinput list-props "$DEVICE"
xinput --set-int-prop "$DEVICE" "Synaptics Palm Detection" 8 1
xinput --set-int-prop "$DEVICE" "Synaptics Palm Dimensions" 32 10 10

First modify the file is /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-synaptics.fdi as explained in:

http://ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com/2009/03/multi-touch-for-anyall-synaptics.html

You can then install

sudo apt-get install gsynaptics

but it doesn't let you modify every settings..

3) If you kept the stock dell ubuntu 8.04 on a separate partition, fix the grub menu timeout to 1 second

sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

Set the "timeout" line to 1.

4) Install Google Chrome!

http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

Update

- Better just turn off the touchpad after all, it's way too bad.

- Go in the bios and fix the Function keys as multimedia keys.

- I installed 2 gigs of RAM in it with the videos on youtube.