Yes, the articles (also on arstechnica, if i'm not mistaken), were mostly that the Netbook Moblin/MeeGo booted really quickly and performance was very good (optimized for atom). A lot of "quickboot" trick were later also adopted in most other linux distributions. But I always thought the reviewers were way to easy on the OS, and doubt they actually used it for a long period of time. I tried Moblin on my netbook even before any partnership with Nokia was announced, and continued to try the updates (and MeeGo Netbook UX) since. It never lasted long on my netbook, and I quickly reverted back to Linux Mint. Moblin/MeeGo netbook UX was/is buggy, incompatible and incomplete and not suitable for any end user. imho.