Netbooks

Why must making a purchase be so darn confusing. I want to buy a new netbook. I want a large SSD HD and a 6 Cell Battery.

I really like the keyboard and overall form of the Dell, and I can use some credit card reward points for half the cost of the Dell. But of course, it tops out with a 16GB SSD drive and it only has a 4 cell battery, no options to upgrade to 6 cell.

I hear the Asus 6 cell batteries are nice, they can get over 6 hours of playback. Asus has an 8.9'' and 10'' models, with various configurations of hard drives, RAM, OS's, etc.

Anyone have any experience with Asus models, or the Dell's for that matter?

I think I scratched HP off the list due to the lack of an Atom processor. The Acer Aspire and MSI Wind lack a larger battery, except in their very high end models which are hard to come by.

And then once I pick the hardware, I got to decide Linux vs WinXP? Do I really want a 10 year old, unsupported OS? Do I really want to learn ANOTHER OS in Linux??

Please help me!!!

On a side note, a hearty congrats to Kirk and Abby on the arrival of Everett Patrick Winters.