The thing I find with netbooks is that almost everyone is universally happy with them: geeks and non-geeks alike. It seems the only people really complaining are technology writers looking for more readers.
As the owner of a nice beefy desktop, I find my eeepc to be delightful. Hour for hour, I probably even spend more time on it, but I never have to feel the frustration of not being able to do something, because I have my desktop machine.
I didn't even want a netbook, it was given to me as a gift from someone looking specifically to get me a completely superfluous technology item. I didn't think I'd use it since I have a really nice laptop. I have no complaints with the keyboard -- it's the lack of vertical pixels that is annoying.