Just an update… I bought a MSI U100 Netbook with Windows installed. I installed openSuSE 11.1 and it just totally rocks. Only thing I had to manually configure was the built-in wifi but other than that, everything else works great! System runs smooth on batteries and in “turbo mode” it runs just as well. It was worth the $ I spent on it.
If you’all want more info on it just ask away.
-Alex