I was looking to add a device that fell somewhere between my 17" Acer Aspire laptop and my N800/N810.

I love my N8x0's especially for traveling and portable media playback. But my eyes get tired using the small screen for extended periods of time, especially IM'ing and doing more than a few casual web searches. So I thought something like this would fit the niche nicely.

The gOS it comes with looks ok, but reviewers on TigerDirect said it has some issues with networking, and most of them have blown away gOS and installed XP anyway. Hopefully the BIOS issues you mentioned have since been remedied. It looks like a nice machine otherwise, though maybe a little on the slow side.