Toshiba NB100

Ok, so i have been a bad boy and bought a toshiba nb100, which is their netbook, i bought it as i noticed toshiba are doing a rebate of £30 on all netbooks bought in january and that got the device down to about 200 quid, which i thought was reasonable enough.
I got the nb100-11R which is the 512MB ram 80GB hd version running ubuntu netbook remix, it seems pretty quick, although i have had it out of the box for about 15 minutes. Now I quite like the remix interface for the nb100 and it seems to work quite well, however I am now thinking about putting arch on it. Has anyone got this netbook and if so do they have any experience putting arch on it, I am assuming that it would be pretty much the same as the aspire one or any other netbook given the style.
Any thoughts?

Ok, Final update.
I now have a fully working installation of arch. To get the installer working from a USB stick, you need to change the SATA mode from AHCI to compatibility, and then boot the image, change the grub settings during boot to add "irqpoll acpi=off" and then boot. You will then be able to install from the latest live image.
You also need to add these kernel parameters to the menu.lst of your new install.
Once you have installed, you will need to download all the core repository files from the ftp server, including the core.db.tar.gz file.
Having done this, copy the .pkg.tar.gz files to the /var/cache/pacman/pkg folder. If you have these files on another machine, then just copy those instead. Make sure you get the i686 files NOT the x86_64, as I haven't tested the x86_64 version.
Logged in as root do the following:
cd /var/lib/pacman/sync/core
rm -rf *
tar -zxf /path/to/core/db/file/core.db.tar.gz
This will now give you the latest synced repository for pacman.
Do pacman -Syu. You will now have a fully up to date system.
Reboot.
Having done this, you will be able to remove the irqpoll and acpi=off kernel parameters, as the latest kernel works perfectly. You can also change the SATA drive mode back to AHCI from compatibility. You should now have a fully installed version of Archlinux.
Update and install stuff as you need.
The video driver you want is xf86-video-intel, same as with the Aspire one.
I found that Audio, video, webcam, and power management worked out of the box once the system was updated, changing your /etc/acpi/handler.sh to include pm-suspend when the lid button is pressed causes the device to suspend when you close the lid, resume works perfectly also.
I have yet to test battery life properly, but I am sure that it will need some optimisation to get it working correctly. I have also not installed a custom kernel as yet.
I currently have a full GNOME desktop working, along with all my applications installed correctly. One point to note is that with this screen I have found it best to reduce font sizes to 7pt rather than the 10 they were originally.

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You cannot retrieve the licence number.
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The point is that Toshiba image which was preinstalled on this notebook was already activated and this means that such key was useless.
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It seems that its not the right place to ask this question here. The point is that the most Toshiba notebooks are delivered with Windows and not with one Linux distribution. Furthermore Im not a Linux user, but I have founded this interesting article:
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/FAQ35006X001BR01.htm
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First, sorry for my bad English.
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Does new MacBookPro 13" (Apr2010) run all Final Cut Studio applications?

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Thanks for your quick response and for the reassurance, my responses back...
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What sorts of things did you want to work on?
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So I'm reluctant to invest more money in a higher spec machine 1) because of limited budget 2) but also the higher spec 15" appears to be sadly unbalanced in that there is up to quad core of processing power etc but a lacking in external interfaces i.e. maximum of FireWire 800 for connecting external drives to. More better in my view to spend just enough on a 'sketch' grade notebook, for learning on and reasonable performance and benefit from the smaller size and cost.
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