If you want a netbook, I think the Asus EEEPC is the leader of the pack. Available with Linux if you want and a 9 hour battery life. I bought a Compaq because it was cheap and the battery life is like an hour and a half.

In the UK it is often done to refer to a company as plural although technically the legal person is singular.

And Dell still suck. I have the caddy, it is in with the hard drive (and a new IDE cable as the old one was for one drive only) and a new optical drive as well (that cable would accept two devices) but for the first time an XP machine is not recognising the second hard drive and I am getting a boot fail until I unplug the new drive (yes it is set to slave). Now I have to drop the bleeding caddies out again and re-check the jumpers and maybe try a new IDE cable, and/or format the drive on another machine or even boot to DOS and Fdisk.

And while I am at it ebuyer suck big stylee too. I had bought the new optical drive for this upgrade - advertised and invoiced as being with Nero and some other shit. When it arrived (35 days ago) I checked the outside of the box - no damage. Today I opened it - just the bare drive, none of the accessories. Tried to enter the ebuyer return program interface and they say I had 28 days so sod off. They have not read the Sale of Goods Act nor the Unfair Contract Terms Act nor the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations and I am going to prolapse their arse so they will never shit comfortably again!