I do think that maemo would look good on a 8 to 9" netbook. The UI seems perfect to me, simple, usable, efficient ... we could have just slightly bigger icons and top&side bars, but with much more room for icons or applets.

The only thing for a netbook would be to add a native version of OpenOffice ...

Besides the very good UI, the overall architecture with extremely power efficient stand-by would be a dream : a netbook you never really power off, ready to use in 1 or 2 seconds, with extremely short applications loading times ...

Wouldn't you definitively love that ?