I don't know anything about FIOS but I have a Dell Netbook (Mini Inspiron, the smallest). I love it for travelling. When I was travelling in the US most of the hotels have free WiFi and I could be online every evening. I could book a hotel in the morning when I had an idea where we would be in the evening. I wrote a longish travel diary (30 pages) so it took me some time to get used to the smaller keyboard but as I type much faster then I write with my hand now it still was a huge improvement. Plus it is cute and black lacquer and has a nice black-and-red cover to put it in. It weighs about 1 kg - I even had it in my backpack when I was hiking.
Can you say I'm excited about it?