you mean you've had an Advent since 1 july?

hmmm. 'complete elimination of nokia' is maybe a bit steep. here in the united states of europe, phones are so heavily subsidised by carriers that people baulk at paying anything at all for the handset when entering into a contract, even for an iphone - and esp for 2 years! Probably the main reason it didn't shift so well here...
the lower price will definitely help sell the iphone but it will remain difficult to convince UK consumers (geeks excluded of course) so used to free phones to part with money for a phone when signing an already pricey contract.
For this reason Nokias - available with numerous features (3G, GPS, etc is surely sooo last year anyway) and almost always free - will continue to sell very well in Europe, IMHO..

hmmm.. lucky you didn't buy any other phone cos you'd have been writing whining letters after a month

hmmm..just read a mini-review of the acer, says keyboard's on a par with the wind. my sincerest apologies to acer for the prejudice..

sorry for the long link..includes vid's

http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/20080603552/hands-on-with-the-acer-aspire-one.html

the acer (to stay a bit closer to topic) sure is a bit of a looker though..

could it be the fact that you can actually type more than 10wpm on the wind cos of the close-to-full-sized keyboard? these 7/9 inchers' keyboards are on the wrong side of teeeeeeeeeeeny. You'd be better off with a handheld frankly. once i tried the eee 900's keyboard i totally gave up the idea of getting one. love surfin' and all, but would still like to reserve the right to crank out the occasional piece of work on it ya see..

na, i want a small (my 12" powerbook died) but not too small, good-looking laptop for surfin n word processing that doesn't cost a bomb.

that just didn't exist before the eee - you were looking at around twice the price or more for an ugly dell. I think the wind's spot-on, it looks ok, it's even got a decent HD to store the odd movie download, and it can easily fit in my work bag without sending me to the shoulder doc. and ram up to 2gb - happy days.

God bless netbooks i say.

Jumping the shark? When the hell are we even gonna be able to buy any netbook that ain't an eee (er, a wind is what i mean) - it's all announcements and no products on shelves so far.

and where did the G10IL go?? want.

card reader is, unofficially, SDHC, although cards stick out of the body of the Wind when fully inserted

...was, for a couple of hours, all 10 went in a jiffy

er, so you can eject disks in the usb drive