Catching Wind

With the recent sale of my 5-year-old Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop (which I used to like to affectionately refer to as "this fucking heavy piece of crap" because it weighed more than 7lbs) to a sucker friend of mine, I've committed myself to buying a new one. For a while I was thinking of blowing about $1600-$2000 on a shiny new M1330, complete with GeForce 8400, but then I realized that that would be a fantastically stupid thing to do. Considering that I was generally happy with the performance of an old P4 2.4GHz during the 15 minutes per week I'm more than three feet away from my quad-core gaming desktop, it makes little sense to blow that kind of money for a mobile powerhouse.

Instead, I've decided to jump on the newly trendy (and affordable) sub-notebook bandwagon. I was eyeing the Asus EeePC for a bit, but I've heard too many things about the keyboard on an 8.9" laptop being too small for stubby fingers like mine, the screen being too low-resolution, and then there were the battery life issues. I also looked at the HP 2133, which has more CPU power than the Eee and better resolution, but shares the small keyboard issue and is more a'spensive. But then, along came MSI with the Wind, and I think we have a winner" $550 gets me a 10" 1024x600 screen (and with it a slightly wider keyboard), a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, bluetooth, 1.3MP camera, and 5.5 hours of battery life running Windows XP. Not bad, not bad at all. Those specs should have no trouble handling the stuff I used my FHPoC for, and weigh less than half as much doing it.
The catch is that it's not yet available, and I'm going to be flying cross-country on June 8. All indications have it going on sale in two weeks (on June 3), so that gives me a five-day window to procure one. C'mon Costco, Wikipedia says you'll have it. Help me out here!

Note: seeing Indiana Jones tomorrow night. I'm cautiously optimistic that I won't hate it.