> is the keyboard horrendous? it is. both the aspire and the Asus Eee PC make my chubby fingers suffer. monitor is also tiny (especially on the Eee). i'm sticking with the macbook as the smallest still usable for programming laptop, especially since i can stick an sufficiently large SSD drive in it and not worry about banging it (much).
Eee comes in a larger size now (10", i believe) but i ahve not tried that.