I was looking for a new smaller (i.e. lighter) laptop for out of work use, I settled on a Dell Mini 9 after reading a number of good recommendations. My only gripe so far is the keyboard, I’m still miss hitting keys and the keyboard layout still causes me to look at the keyboard more than I would like, but I can see that I will get used to it, it’s not unusable like the Asus eeepc.
I thought a new machine would be the perfect time to give Windows 7 a good try, so far it’s been great.
I really like the new taskbar of Windows 7, but one thing I found after a few days of using the keyboard shortcut of ‘windows key’ + m, was the ‘show desktop’ button at the far right of the taskbar, it’s a little button that when clicked will show the desktop. It seemed fairly hidden (at least for me).