   what linux or Windows CE netbook?
  Can anyone recommend a really cheap light netbook that runs Linux or Windows CE? I've seen some about that are about £100 or less. What I want it for is to write my sci-fi novel on the move. So the only specifications it needs is to be able to edit DOC files and load 300 pages reasonably quickly and also WiFi so I can upload it to my storage space and a long battery time. I don't care about graphics or sound or webcams or stuff like that.I'm worried that the Windows CE devices I've seen only come with wordpad which can't be good to load DOC files on. I don't know much about the linux ones but they come with Xip Word or Abiword which is based on Open Office I think. Does anyone have one of these devices and can it edit large DOC files and save them properly formatted?    
  Why not just use RTF files? That opens up your options considerably, and you can easily convert them to any format you wish once you get them to another computer. Or just use the money you saved to buy MS Office.   ;  Asus has some good "eee pc" netbooks that run full windows XP or windows 7. (i installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix after i got mine).You can install whatever software you need after that. And most of them come with 1Gb of ram, that should be plenty for just document editing. (it is easily enough to surf the web or watch a movie).(though it looks like the cheapest one is 280$. I got the S101 model with 32Gb SSD)   ;  Don't go with Windows CE.  It is not related to Microsoft Windows in any meaningful way.  Microsoft came out with Windows 7 to target netbooks -- but between Windows and Microsoft Office you've already spent over a hundred even before you've bought hardware (unless you plan to steal the software -- you do know that's illegal and immoral, right?).A netbook running Linux and Open Office will edit your .doc documents just fine.  I have an original Linux EeePC 701 that does the job without any fuss, no hard drive, several hours battery life.  Keyboard sucks and the screen is a might small, though.  I used to have a model 1000 that was peachy.  Edited .doc files all the time.   