Anyone any experience of these? Can they be readily programmed? They look like a brilliant little interface to a mid-sized robot (USB, WiFi, battery-powered, etc...) With refurbished prices of around $100, it's be well worth considering.
...but they need to be programmable...
my father as a asus eeepc,
my father as a asus eeepc,
running winXP … programmable as any other PC with XP
the keyboard is a bit small
want something programmable ? try some picaxe 18x based laptop 
if you’re talking about Asus
if you’re talking about Asus EEE and similar, they’re complete PC, and so just as programmable as any other pc. They’re indeed a very good choice for medium sized robot. You have all the pc goodies in there: wireless, webcam, tcp/ip, cpu power, etc etc.
Even xkcd think so 
XP?
How the hell do you build an XP installation into a 4Gb drive?
Edit: Yes. I just discovered nLite.
