Emacs is designed to be used 100% by keyboard... one way it has evolved is to support chords (holding down multiple keys then pressing another)... This keyboard is flat and the keys do not have big "trenches" between them, which makes it easy to hold down (for example) shift and ctrl at once.<p>I have not experienced eye strain from the display brightness, though a few times I have temporarily made the font larger (I find that sometimes I just feel like using a 12pt font to write code)...<p>The netbook is somewhat slow (about 70% the speed of my regular laptop for things like running a test suite, etc.  I have actually enjoyed this and taken the extra time to take a few deep breaths and practice mindfulness :)  I know it sounds weird but it's easy to get caught up in the rush to write more code -- to the point where even a very fast laptop will feel mind-numbingly slow at times... I know this one is a bit slower, and by accepting that and enjoying the occasional moment of patient waiting I have come to enjoy some of those previously annoying slowdowns...