[snowsislander]

On the PC side: Little larger hard drive, more memory, faster DVD drive, card reader and a modem. Tempering that is that few use modems these days and the DVD drive is only single-layer. Also 2 GB is the realistic minimum for Vista. The bad: The processor is an Intel Atom (read: Netbooks) competitor and the graphics are ancient.

For what it is worth, I bought one of those $298 E-Machines recently and put PCLinuxOS 2009 on it. It was a very pleasant, very simple install --- everything went flawlessly.

The only fault that I found in playing with it was that using full screen mode with hulu was jerky. Otherwise, everything works quite well.

[antiRepublicrat]

Good idea putting Linux on it, because it is woefully underpowered for Vista.

Did you try to get the money back for the Vista license you paid for?