The Mrs has an Eee, and she loves it. Easily copes with the train to London and back without needing mains power. The keys are obviously smaller than a standard keyboard, so it pays to try one before you buy it (PC World will usually have 1 on display, but they're not the cheapest place to buy). She obviously has little fingers, so depends on whether you've got big podgers or not.
The solid state disc is excellent, very fast. Despite being way smaller than the traditional disc option it's my preference to be honest. Noone needs an 80Gb HD in a netbook; well, unless you're stupid enough to put Visturd on it, of course.