well, as I was saying, it can't play flash HD ... a Netbook is for the "net", otherwise, you buy a "laptop" ... pointless to buy a 200$ computer and a 300$ blueray drive ...
In reality, only Flash is legitimate content, and silverlight ... Those are mainstream, the rest is cheap marketing for fanboys.

a netbook + Blueray drive = 700$ ... well, Get a Dell dude! they are cheaper than this with Core 2 Duo.

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Duh!

I have an eeePC701 that will play flash video without issue. HQ on youtube is flawless and it took me a while to find the right codec, but now it has no problem with 720p mkv files.

I guess the rest of it escaped you:

"The WMV and MKV videos and the Blue-ray of Batman Begins were running smoothly during our hands-on test - this isn't the case with Intel's default onboard solution (945er chipset). Furthermore the power consumption is surprisingly low: The Acer Aspire Revo (without Blu-ray drive) is said to need 28 watt only. Unfortunately HD Flash videos and HD clips from Youtube aren't running smoothly though."

I don't a Core 2 (or even vaunted DAAMIT) can run an MKV @ 28w. I'm wondering if it's simply drivers or something. Decoding an MKV should take more than decoding flash...

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid...

Both can't play HD flash video out of the internet, both have hard time to play flash video in SD if something else is running ...
Who care about Blueray on Atom, the drive is more expensive then the Ion platform ... for 100$ more, you get a Core 2 machine that can do ALL.