Ubuntu and the HP Mini 5101 — follow-up

I'm very much enjoying using my Mini 5101. It performs much better than I expected, and now that I have my corporate VPNs and SSH tunnels set up in Ubuntu I have a fully portable support platform, for just such an emergency. I even have a 3G USB modem working (more on that some other time as there is a new model coming out I want to try as well).

Just to clean up some loose ends, I think the ACPI issue has to do with a strange BIOS setting. Intel Atom processors are all single-core as far as I am aware, and yet the dual-core option int he BIOS was enabled by default. Once I disabled this I haven't had any other boot problems since.

The webcam was easy enough to set up simply by making sure the camera was enabled in the BIOS and installing the luvcview and uvccapture packages.

Why would I bother with Windows?