[jamrdun]

Just curious about how people are actually using this little bundle of joy. I use mine for field checks on digital photos, watching movies or tv shows while spending countless hours waiting in the hospital and checking emails or light surfing at home when my iMac is tied up.
What about you?

[dkerr24]

Mine is nothing more than a expensive toy. Definitely should have done more homework before purchasing. The keyboard drove me nuts (touch typist).

I did scrap Windows XP and loaded Ubuntu on it to see if I like the O/S. Sure seems very peppy running Ubuntu with 2gb ram.

[deb22]

I surf the web..play on and off line games, burn movies....watch movies.....Yep...It is my little toy.....I love it...

[kbbl]

This was strictly my toy. Mainly for surfing with wifi. My home, and workplace, as well as my parents has wifi.

Purchased a new computer in March. Debated on a laptop, but since I still like desktops, and the only reason I wanted a laptop was the ability to surf remotely, it was cheaper to purchase a PC and mini, than a laptop, docking station etc.

And here I am

[Ric]

I use mine for 90 percent of my computer needs at home. I plop on the couch and can get to my forums/surf/ebay/email/docs etc. It is also ideal for road warrior duties.

[weber72]

I use mine in lieu of a smartphone, I suppose. I wanted something portable, and a full-fledged computer served my needs better than any smartphone could have. It goes everywhere I go (I bought it because it was small enough to throw into my flight bag and take with me), and I keep track of my schedule and emails on the go. I use it for flight-related activities (checking weather, filing flight plans), business-related activities (keeping track of reservations, typing invoices), and hobby-related activities (amateur radio stuff, some old console emulators).

What a great little machine. I'm glad I got one before they were discontinued.

[Digilator]

I use mine for keeping my kid entertanied on flights and car rides.
I backed up our Disney DVD's to ISO's and we watch 'em with VLC.
Aside from that, I use it for web, music, email, testing new software and Hulu.
Great little machine and I'd glad I got one before they stopped production.

[Mr Grace]

I enjoy using my 9 watching streaming movies from Netflix (on the home wifi). When you enlarge the movie to full screen it's quite a decent size.

Also, like jamrdun, I take it on day trips and weekends with my digital camera for photo downloading, basic editing and reviewing.

Overall, a teriffic machine - even with the stock 8GB SSD and 1GB RAM. At times the keyboard can be challenging, which is my only gripe.

[tsenecal]

I have mine as a tool for my Radio Control vehicles (Heli, Boats, Subs). It has a neoprene sleeve it sits in while in my R/C field box, as a well as a cigarette lighter adapter, so I can charge it at the "field". All the little gadgets I have for my other toys require Windows though, so I have virtualbox running windows XP on a mac os X install.

I also occasionally use it to watch movies and surf the web. (2gb ram, 32gb runcore, mac os X 10.5.7)

[joriki]

For those of you who wish the keyboard were better, there's a more standard keyboard available, as discussed in a sticky on this site:

Replacement Keyboard more normal (US-Intl)