I just opened this section of the forum for the first time, thinking, I must tell everyone about my eeepc, to find someone else had already done it!
I've had mine for about 3 months now and it's the best bit of kit I've ever bought - stupidly cheap, it 'just works', and it's really really cute!
Mrs Fibble - there's been a lot of debate on the stability of these drives on the unofficial forum (eeeuser.com - Martin, you should check it out if you haven't already) and general opinion seems to be that because the Linux doesn't use swap files / virtual memory, it has vastly fewer writes than XP, so lifespan should be good.
I've installed the advanced desktop (XP style interface) and added a few new programs, including WINE, which means I can run windows progs within Linux - all working fine. Even if you 'break' it, all the system files are protected and you can restore it instantly to factory settings at the touch of a button (you'd lose your files though, which is why I save things to an SDCard in the internal drive).