Well the netbook came to life real easy, and nothing interesting was on it so did factory restore and it seems to be running XP SP3 as well as it ever did. Thought the battery was gonna be okay, coz it started charging, and went up to 100% but a reboot on battery and 10 mins of space cadet pinball drained it. A few mins of battery is better than none at all though for riding out brownouts and moving machine from one room to another etc. Unless maybe it recalibrates with use a bit. Interestingly machine has 2 SD card slots, one marked storage expansion, haven't tried SDHC in it yet though. Be cool if I can boot alternative OS off that, hey look there's a win98 graphics driver for i945. Screen seems crisper than other netbooks, not sure how, it's same res. Anyway, got an ultraportable "Athlon with a TNT" equivalent in more usable shape for gaming than 2 other netbooks I've got which have trashed keyboards, and they never seem to feel worth spending the $$$ on, maybe I should set up eBay alerts though to see if I can catch parts cheap. It's got a GB in, which with these models usually having 512mb soldered in, means a 512 in the SODIMM I guess, unless this is a unicorn with 1GB onboard.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.