My wife picked up a similar "subnotebook" for her classes (12.1" screen, though), and I've ended up taking a liking to it: an MSI Wind12 U230-040. They keyboard doesn't suffer from as much of the braindamage that some of the other devices in this form factor seem to sport (two fingers required for some common keys like insert, delete, page up/down, etc), and the 1366x768 resolution is quite usable. Video performance is respectable, you can stuff 4GB of RAM in it with a 64-bit OS, and I'd expect it to fly with an SSD.
There's a few different versions of it; the -040 has a dual-core Neo X2, while the newer -087 models have a single core. MSI is notoriously lousy about making minor adjustments to the model numbers/names, but making substantial changes to the underlying hardware.
Coming down the road (MSI is also notoriously late on delivering new models, apparently) is the U250, and there's a few specific spec updates on the roadmap for it (DDR3, processor and video updates) should make for a very capable small-form-factor computing device.
My more general recommendation for any of these smaller gadgets, though, is to go into a store and handle them yourself. Use the keyboard, fire up notepad and write a little bit of code if that's what you were planning to do with it. The keyboards on a lot of these units are absolutely vile; they're all a compromise between key size and layout, and you'll want to spend some time with them to see if you can live with it.
There's a few different versions of it; the -040 has a dual-core Neo X2, while the newer -087 models have a single core. MSI is notoriously lousy about making minor adjustments to the model numbers/names, but making substantial changes to the underlying hardware.
Coming down the road (MSI is also notoriously late on delivering new models, apparently) is the U250, and there's a few specific spec updates on the roadmap for it (DDR3, processor and video updates) should make for a very capable small-form-factor computing device.
My more general recommendation for any of these smaller gadgets, though, is to go into a store and handle them yourself. Use the keyboard, fire up notepad and write a little bit of code if that's what you were planning to do with it. The keyboards on a lot of these units are absolutely vile; they're all a compromise between key size and layout, and you'll want to spend some time with them to see if you can live with it.