all the joys and cost of netbook hardware without having to worry about the convenience and portability of a netbook

The Wind blows...

Kinda sad they ever bothered to use a 945 chipset with Atom. At idle it won't use all that much less power than ATI 960G and a 45W Athlon X2 tweaked for lowest vcore it'll run stable at stock speed, the difference easily negated by the extra time you have to leave the system powered on waiting for it when under load. Only remaining redeeming factor is the small case size.

Works well. Very quiet. Running xp pro and works effectlessly.

#4 effectlessly? In that is has no effect? That doesn't sound good but what I would expect.