Again this is running an ATOM processor, and in my opinion even that is too slow for just checking e-mail, my mother in law who has very basic needs from a laptop, (ie checking mail and light internet browsing) and she is constantly complaining about how slow it is. Spend a little bit more for a pentium, or AMD athalon dual core.
The atom processor is awesome bro..It can be tweaked like a muthaF ker...
I had an MSI wind which had that same 1.6 GHZ atom processor...However, it had a factory overclock feature, where i was able to get a 25% overclock with no problems, so that pushed the processor speed to well above 2.0 ghz...I also doubled the ram to 2 gigs....threw in a 8 gig SSD for more speed...
Plus i also found special editions of windows xp on the net that were fully functional at 170 mb installed...
All in all i was able to boot windows Xp in about 14 seconds
i hear the atom can be pushed to about 2.5 ghz..
MSI has great US based customer service