I bought my first netbook, an ASUS Eee PC 901 back in April of 2008. At that time it came with a 20 gig solid state drive and Xandros Linux installed. It was a good little machine but since it was an 8.9" model it was a little cramped for typing. Later on I moved onto the Eee PC 1000H with a 10 inch screen and a larger keyboard. It was better but it still had the right shift key, that gagnonrich talked about in his first post, over on the far right hand side. It bothered a lot of people and ASUS was listening and changed it in their new netbooks.
 
I ended up selling the 901 and 1000H and I now have the 1000HE which I honestly think is the best netbook out there. According to ASUS you can get up to 9.5 hours of battery life out of it but I'm sure you'd have to dim the screen down a lot and not use the wireless N connection to achieve that. I've been averaging about 7 hours of battery life on both XP and the Windows 7 beta. I've been considering putting Poser on the netbook just for the sake of curiousity to see how it runs. The only problem (and it's really not a big problem) with the 1000 series of netbooks is their glossy finish, especially the darker finishes. They tend to be fingerprint magnets. Luckily ASUS provides a microfibre cloth in the box so you can always wipe off the prints.