Thanks for the advice Mike. As for keyboard noise - i haven't actually done this yet, my current technology is an FM analogue radio (very quiet and cool running, by the way :-) ) We'll see how it goes... If anyone can recommend any other fanless netbooks I should look at, that would be very helpful....

Many thanks for this review and discussion. I am considering the 1005HA. Among many other uses, I want to use a netbook as a bedside Internet headphone radio. I listen on headphones in the dead of night with my wife asleep beside me. She is intolerant of noise (for example, in a hotel room she will ...