They keyboard is 95% of full size.  I think people get psyched out by small keyboards but that after a few hours on it your hands naturally adjust (perhaps practice going between keyboards helps)...<p>I don't use a particularly small font.  I find that emacs works great -- switching between buffers, toggling between marks, bookmarks, etc., is extremely easy, and some chords are easier to type b/c of the keyboard design.<p>I have the font size set to 10pt which seems to be about the right size.  I would probably use that size even on a larger monitor.  Subpixel rendering and the LED backlight on this netbook (plus a nice emacs color theme) makes the text read very easily.<p>For documentation, I just open it in a web browser and switch with alt-tab or ctrl-tab (within the browser).