this one ... http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2008/07/10/As...

"... Ahh with the HD. Nice, more power usage but you don't have as much problem with solid state storage & swap disk writes. ..."

What I though might be wrong. Says here it's flash disk ~ http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/1107149-ssd-2-5-sata-40gb-s... so does that mean you have probs with swap-disk?

Mem: 1028172k total, 588652k used, 439520k free, 46080k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 354084k cached

Is that what you mean?

Yes. This is with the Lin version so I wonder what they (Ausus) are doing not requiring a swap. It makes me think I'll have to look harder at the Ubuntu eee version to see if they swap if I get a eeepc.