acer aspire one first gen

So i'm at the mall checking out the price for acer aspire one the first generation but two out of two clerks told me the downside of this particular model. Numero uno is how slow the damn thing is when you upgrade it to windows xp ( i kinda need it since my 9 to 5 work is a slave of Bill G) and how crappy uploading drivers is to the device. Linux works good on the machine though since they do recommend keeping the original OS on the machine. So, no Yahoo Messenger on the machine, crappy windows upgrade, but a heck of a lot better looking than the usual asus eee. So i guess I'll go get the asus eee just because the same price gets me a windows xp version with roughly the same specs (but crappier looks)