Another consideration with the NB200 is that if it is stolen, someone can read the contents of your hard drive easily enough by just removing it from the NB200 and connecting it to another computer. The only way to avoid this is by encrypting the hard drive.
The NB200 only comes with XP Home, which doesn't include file encryption. Fortunately, Truecrypt exists, and is an awesome piece of Open Source software.
Before starting, I did a full backup of my drive using Norton Ghost 14, just in case something went wrong.
Then download and run the latest Truecrypt. I chose to encrypt the system drive completely, since all I care about is if someone steals the computer, I'm not trying to hide anything else, although Truecrypt has lots of features to do that.
Almost immediately I ran into a problem, Truecrypt requires that you have a CD or DVD writer attached to the machine, which I don't to write out a recovery disk. The way around this is to disable the ISO checking. I did this by opening a DOS window, going to the Truecrypt install directory and typing "truecrypt format.exe" /n
This bypasses the check for the recovery disk. Make sure you save the ISO file somewhere though! (I saved it on my main laptop)
Then I pretty much chose all the defaults, and now I have a secured hard drive!
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