My new Asus Eee PC and Ubuntu One

The new Asus Eee PC.

Well I bought myself Asus Eee PC 1015B recently. Although a very handy little machine now, I still have some fine tuning to do, especially with the power side of things.
I am sill waiting on the new RAM to arrive. I ordered a 2Gbyte stick as the specs said that you cannot use anything higher. I then found out that the limitation was due to Windows 7 starter and not a hardware one. This made sense considering the CPU is an AMD C50 dual core 64 bit and should be capable of much much higher specs. So I then ordered a 4Gbyte stick. As at writing (on the train going to work) I am still waiting for the arrival of either. It would have been nice to pop in a 8Gbyte, but I could find no one selling a single 8Gbyte stick, they all came in kits with two for 16Gbyte total. Well I figure 4Gbyte should be enough anyway with what I want to use it for.
Of course, the first thing I did was start to load up Linux the instant I turned it on. I had created a start up USB stick with Kubuntu on it ready before it had arrived.
Well, it struggled to boot, I was using an ancient 2Gbyte Sandisk and read somewhere that the unit has trouble with a particular Sandisk stick (I later learnt that this is also was a problem with Windows 7 Starter and not the hardware). I tried a newer Lexar stick, and same thing.
Well, check some hardware specs, and the Asus (now called Muaddib, from Frank Herberts "Dune", after Paul Atreides Fremen name) has a USB 3.0 slot. So I race off and get a high speed USB stick to try and load Kubuntu.
The main problem I was having was that the installer appeared to be having trouble seeing the hard drive to allocate partitions. So I booted into the Kubuntu desktop and configured up the partitions. I was then able to seemingly progress from there, I actually got Kubuntu to "install" but it would not boot. When I booted back into a live session and looked at the hard drive,it looked all normal, but just would not boot.
I then tried the alternative version of Kubuntu, followed by the DVD version, all with no luck. I was getting quite a bit worried and the hard drive light was not working, and thought it might be a bit hard to claim warranty after I had erased the windows partition including the recovery partition (wanted all that 320Gbyte I could get and was not planning on recovering to Windows 7 ... ever). I then had a thought.
What if it was Kubuntu and not the Eee PC. This did not seem logical as I had tried three different images all with the same results, but I thought, why not. So I put in an Ubuntu start up stick while I downloaded the new version of Bodhi to try. Well, lo and behold, Ubuntu loaded and ran with out a hitch. When I got Bodhi, I loaded it up and it ran great.

So, not the hard drive but something with Kubuntu. I remember I had some trouble when I was loading Kubuntu on the main system, but I did get there eventually.
I ended up loading on Ubuntu and installing the KDE desktop from the main repositories. I have quickly gotten used to KDE work flow and Bodhi/Enlightenment was starting to be a bit of a struggle in small fringe area's I seemingly have gotten used to (Similar things that Gnome shell took away as well, but another story). But with a bit of learning, I may go back to my original Linux desktop from over ten years ago, Enlightenment.
So the system is running fine, and I am writing this on the train going to and from work, which is one of the main points of getting this device. There are still people on the train who take up two seats for them and their "lap top" PC, while I sit next to a young chap and his small DELL system with no major space issues for either of us (although mine started from off quicker than his starting Windows 7 from sleep ... hehe).
The next part of this project is to get the system tethered to my mobile phone, either by wifi or bluetooth. I don't care which, just so long as it is wireless. Also waiting to see if the 4Gbyte RAM will improve both performance and sleeping, currently it cannot recover from sleep which is a bit annoying.

Final bit.

I am now writing from my desktop PC, having synced across the earlier part of the draft blog via my Ubuntu One account. This is starting to turn into an awesome little tool and I am sure I will be leasing more space in the future as my music and videos get synced from this desktop machine and my phone and the Eee. I love that I can take pictures on the phone and have them synced over to my desktop. I know Google has a similar feature, but I like that I can have my pics on a hard drive sitting on my desk available to me with out a network, that is why I use it for the Eee that is currently not on a mobile network. I can edit on the Eee and when it is on a network, it synchronises my documents.
Question, are you an Ubuntu One user? and how do you find it compared to the other cloud options out there? And if you are not one, do you use a "cloud" service? and how do you find it?