Microsoft should just stop selling XP if they are going to restrict what you can sell it with. If the "netbook" makers didn't have XP available they would just have to make more capable computers or sell them with a different OS. 1024 x 600 screen resolution is worthless you can't even surf the net with that.
It might be worthless to you, it isn't worthless to everyone.
My wife needed a very light laptop that she could use when away for typing up notes, email and surfing. It needed to fit in a handbag, not have a real hard disk (so she didn't kill it buy throwing it into the bag after failing to turn it off).
The Dell Mini 9 with its tiny size, light weight and SSD is perfect for her. She doesn't have a problem with the small screen and tiny keyboard. It works fine for what she uses it for. In fact she loves it.
I'm sure it wouldn't be fine if she was using the typical XP user's setup, i.e. task bar permanently visible, IE7 window not maximized, a couple of IE toolbars etc
Thankfully she is married to me so she has the task bar set to auto minimise, is running Chrome AND knows how to maximise windows
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