I know you love your sony.. but for my recent trip i picked up the Acer Aspire One
9" screen - 160gb HDD - 1gb Ram - Wireless - Windows XP and decent battery life
Think it cost me around $650 from Harvey Normans. Awesome laptop, quick, reliable, plenty of hdd space to dump images etc.
I still like the macbookair - one of the first lappys i've seen that i've gone "ooo do want"
Sony is always bling.. cant really go wrong there - except for vista (fail on netbook)
Oh the aspire one has a gloss white top - that provides a great canvas for some custom work :
