I was going to ask you how well Visual studio express run on it but after reading the answers about the other questions, I will not
After asking the question to Tepples regarding the keyboard, I went yesterday on my way back home again to check them to see which one I would like to buy someday and the keyboards is always what annoys me the most.
Most of them (eee pc 700, 900, dell 900, toshiba n100) have small keyboard and it make it hard to type fast. And the fact they are in japanese... They have more key, which mean even smaller.. But now asus say they will discontinue all model under the 1000 so I don't know how many will still have small keyboard in the future.
The acer one was almost acceptable for me but the mouse is what kill the deal in the end. The MSI one was nice too but the function key in the corner (I think it this one), grr. The only one I could type nicely with a JP configuration what the eee PC 1000h and maybe the HP one but I didn't try it.
Now Samsung will have one out soon and some no name japanese made some too but those one may be only available in japan. I guess I will still wait for the right price.
In Japan, if you see a UMPC with Linux, you're lucky. I didn't see any yet. It could be that bigger store like Yodobashi don't have any stocks because the demand is not there or the demand is too small in japan. It's quite a pain to use Linux in japanese for non server app.