Maybe a couple of months down the track someone might come up with a nice spec thats aimed at the gaming segment but like with most things, we might see bigger and thicker netbooks and ultimately end up back where we started with normal conventional laptop sizes. Even if they were able to pull it off, the price already on these netbooks are very high and in some cases quite outragous. I still believe the original eee-pc is the ultimate portable netbook, pitty the battery doesn’t last as long as ones such as the MSI Wind or Samsung NC10 (reportably 8hrs with wifi on)

I like the 10″ screen. My only issues is that the resolution is non-standard at 1024×600, and some games require minimum 1024×768 that do not support widescreen, which is not playable on this smaller screen native resolution.

Either way, though, it is an ultra portable that is affordable with gaming capabilities. Don’t expect miracles, but it will get in your gaming fix without issue.

Sure, I’d like it to exploit the physical size better and have a slightly larger screen (11″?), on the other hand having a think bezel hopefully makes the lid more sturdy.

I did buy a netbook to tote around with my projector for presentations and wouldn’t run away from sending an occassional e-mail from the “thing”. Fullstop. No more than that. However, I have a hard time to see a purpose for making a “bigger” netbook (?!)

“Not too shabby” specs when the a/m thing is getting close to an ultraportable range of laptops without actually “catching up” with features ?

My personal opinion is that the hype went too far without actually generating the devices that we all hoped for … why don’t they make a more affordable ultraportable instead of all this “netbook” stuff ?

If you do a video, PLEASE do it in mpeg4 — I’ve already been glad many times I don’t even have a flash plugin.

On other boards its been suggested that the HDMI port can’t be driven by the integrated graphics, so that’s one reason the graphics card is there. Not sure this is going to be a big use of netbooks, but there it is. In theory it will allow you to play some games you otherwise wouldn’t be able to play, but of course the Atom could easily be a problem there anyway, we’ll have to see over time. A netbook could be a good platform for portable gaming of course, i.e. something to do while you’re on the plane, or waiting at the doctor’s office, etc.

Personally, I feel that at the current time, if it’s 10″ or smaller, and uses an Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor, it’s a netbook. It’s not supposed to offer the performance of a traditional laptop, not even the slow speed of a typical ultra-mobile laptop, and this doesn’t even come close.

And what’s the point of having a laptop with an Intel Atom coupled with this graphics card? What will I be able to do using this computer that I wouldn’t be able to do with simple integrated graphics? The IG GMA 950 has worked very well on full-sized laptops, so the real bottleneck is going to be the Intel Atom.