If you’ve scoured the web for reviews on this baby then you’ll know all the pros and cons, so I won’t repeat them here. The pros in fact do outweigh the cons by miles, but there is one ugly con that stands out. Here, I’ll tell you how I dealt with it.

The power supply DOES get red hot. Fortunately, since I was forewarned, I did the following:

1. When you start it up for the first time, leave it plugged in ONLY as long as it takes for the battery to charge to full.

2. Once it’s charged, disconnected the charger from your computer AND from the wall outlet.

3. Let it discharge to lower than 10%, then immediately reconnect the charger and charge it to full again. At this point, it is normal for the adapter to become very, very hot while charging all the way from low battery. So help it charge faster by keeping the display turned off or dimmed.

4. Repeat this charge/discharge cycle several times. If you want to use the netbook badly, try to incorporate your da