This year for Christmas I decided to get Mom a netbook! She’s pretty web savvy and needed something ultra portable to surf the interwebs and check email on the go.

After some searching I found a Dell Vostro A90 for only $184! The specs on it are pretty weak but Mom isn’t playing Modern Warfare, strictly web browsing and email.

When it came time to choose an operating system I decided to go with Linux because it doesn’t come bloated with any of the crapware. When I got it in the mail my intent was to customize Ubuntu to mimic XP (which is what she’s been using), however, I stumbled a upon a blog post somewhere about a new OS called Jolicloud which is similar to Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Long story short… I love this little netbook OS. Check out the video above for a quick video review.