[J1mmy]

I am soon going to make the decision to sell my HP TX2500 laptop, and invest into something more suited for my purposes.

I'm considering these netbooks because all I want to do with it really is emailing, word processing (but require most office applications), web browsing, music.

I've lost track since the Asus Eee came out, and I know that HP also have one as well that looks quite convincing. So, I need advise on what brand to get, and more importantly, what operating system. Some HP's come with MS OS's but what about the Linux OS on these machines - can they accommodate my requirements as I've mentioned?