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Thanks Andy, should I go for the M10000 with a fan-cooled 1GHz C3 CPU or would the ME6000 with a fanless 600MHz Eden CPU be adequate?

A fanless 600MHz Eden should be fine as you're not doing anything particularly strenuous on it.

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How does the 600MHz Eden compare to a P3 500MHz CPU?

Rule of thumb for VIA CPUs is that effective speed is a little over half the real clockspeed.