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The Advent 4211 Netbook is a nice piece of kit. I've been using mine for several years now, much without any trouble.

It's got the following hardware:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller (rev 22)

why i like netbooks

The principle of a netbook, as far as I can see is that you have the same functionality of a laptop but in a much smaller case.

I don't particularly like tablet computers quite so much, I think they have much further to go. They're just beefed up touch screen mobile phones as far as I can see. This for me makes them undesirable as if you wish to do anything other than take brief notes then you'll find yourself in a world of pain due to the want of a keyboard. If the work that you're doing doesn't require any keyboard input then I think you'll be ok. Once you have on-screen keyboards then you loose a great deal of screen space, which is a shame as it'd be like trying to work through a letterbox.

drivers

The ''only'' driver problem that I've had with this netbook is for it's wireless. However, this was simple enough to solve with ndiswrapper in the usual way. The drivers for it are available on the web.

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper*
sudo ndiswrapper -i net8187Se.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper