HP Pavilion dv2

Pros: Small, nice looking, great keyboard, great screen, better performance than netbooks, lots of ports, SIM card slot, includes USB DVD burner. Fully compatible with Ubuntu Linux 8.10 (including wireless, suspend, CPU speed, sound).

Cons: No express card slot, mediocre battery life, less performance than a more expensive laptop. Should offer a Linux (Ubuntu) pre-install alternative to Vista.

Summary: The machine is as compact and lightweight as high end ultra-portable laptops, but it costs about half as much, so for that you get a somewhat worse battery life and performance. The processor is fast enough for anything I have wanted to do with it.