A bigger touchpad is certainly a good thing, personally I think it's a little too small in the original NC10.

The Special Edition is only $50 more than the standard NC10 and you get a great battery.

When will Amazon ship?

Do ANY netbooks have a third mouse button?

By the way, you can do a middle click traditionally by pressing both the left and right mouse button simultaneously, but I don't know if this is possible on NC10's rocker design (where you can only press one button at a time)

With mini laptops that support multitouch (like the NC10), you can configure a three finger click to act as a third button. Or use tap zones in the corners of the trackpad.
I found that under windows I can configure the touchpad so that I don't use the buttons at all. I don't know any linux distro that supports multitouch yet, but there's a new synaptics driver so give it a month or two…
(btw opensuse seems the best linux distro for the NC10 as all the fn keys work, touchpad sensitivity is just right and sound works correctly).

http://netbook-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=…

Not netbooks per-se, but ThinkPads have 3rd button.

The one that comes closest to a netbook, x61s, could be had before Christmas for ~CAD570 (even cheaper in US) in basic config (1.6 c2dulv, 1gb ram, 80 gb hd, abg wifi, 12″ screen, 4cell~ 3h battery, ~ 2.9 pounds).

I always wish that manufacturers would give various estimates for battery life, so for example, when doing A it lasts 3 hrs, when doing A+B it lasts 1 hr etc.