I am currently working with a client who purchased the 8g. Could not get his verizon usb 727 aircard working. I talked to the "linux guy" at asus and he told me that taiwan(home office) is not supporting newer kernels and all work was being put to the 900 series. Basically my guy is stuck with 2.6.18 i think it was. So we decided to put ubuntu on it. the guy at assus recommended using a distro other the xandros because of its "highly modified kernel". my experience with the xandros os on eeepc is not a good one. it is very difficult to modify and get newer hardware to work. I would get a laptop.