I think arm still have advatages with intel pineview platforms in battery lifes with decent performances that competitively beats intel atom if the chips clocked higher.

The prob on the Linux side - the PowerVR core has closed specs. intel is usually quite good about whipping up drivers for their kit, but their hands are largely tied here.

It's going to, sadly, take a reverse engineering effort to get free drivers out. And that tends to take a while...

Or will we still be seeing netbooks running at 1.6 gigglesplurtz?

What is it with Intel and graphics?
Just keep gluing chips on top of one another until you have a pyramid....math processor + memory + controllers + video chip + audio chip + more memory + (finally) bios chip for the crowning achievement to deaden any paths that refuse to corporate....what could go wrong?

It's just running a little . . . hot.

Maybe now the OSS community will get their act together and build some drivers so that Linux on this chipset is actually useable.