I recently bought a Gigabyte T1028 netbook and I'm really happy with it. It's one of the ones that can work as a tablet (definitely recommend that). They're probably easier to find here in China than in the States because Gigabyte is a Taiwanese company, but the nice thing about their netbooks is that they're engineered to be easily upgradable like laptops - there are doors in the bottom of the unit to access various components - so if memory becomes an issue, you can install extra (and memory is dirt cheap nowadays). Don't know if there are any other companies building them like this, but it might be something to look into.
That said, I'd be prepared to buy a laptop soon. If your daughter starts getting into more intensive uses of computers, like art applications for example, she's going to need a more powerful processor and a bigger screen.
