+1 for the EEEPC range, I'm now using a 1005 HA, which is fantastic and running very well on Windows 7. It's got 160gb of hard-drive, and ASUS have cleverly put the system back up ON the hard-drive so if everything goes wrong you just hold F9 down as you boot the computer and it will do a factory reset.
The hard-drive is partitioned into C and D, the best thing is to store all your data on D, leaving C for Windows and your installed programs. Factory reset only affects the C drive, so this way you can get your computing back from a catastrophe in about 30 minutes.
Another option worth considering is something like Portable Apps Suite. The idea is that you can put all the programs you need on a portable drive like a USB memory stick or SD card, plug that into ANY windows computer and you can use those programs directly from the memory stick with no installation at all.
With my EEEPC I've gone one stage further, partioned my hard-drive into C, D and E. Windows is on C, all the data is on D, and Portable Apps on E. Touch wood if I ever factory reset, I'll be up and running again in about five minutes.
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