There's no mention of the chip that comes with this laptop. I had an EASYNOTE SB85-P-006 which came with the defective NVIDIA 8600 chip. I've been meaning to contact Packard Bell except they don't have any contact info, be it email or phone number. Hope this one doesn't have the same Video chip.

£400 = about USD650 = about NZD1000. Windows 7 probably accounts for about a sixth of that price. Are they going to offer a cheaper Windows XP or Linux version?

This is a re-badged Acer 1410/1810T/1810TZ, which has been available for some weeks. Even the available colors match.

Still, it's a sweet machine.

Interesting, MSI has the U210 to be available in days, it sports the Athlon Neo 1.6Ghz (not sure how does this compares to Intel ULV, but comparing to Atom, the Neo is overall better in performance. I suppose this also makes battery to perform less. Also if its the single core version you will be missing hyperthreading). Comes with HDMI and the known revamped low power version of the ATI X1250 powering the 1366x768 12.1 inch screen.

On the other hand, I watched at youtube a video of the new Acer Ferrari One. And holy s*** its really sweet. With ATI HD3200 and dual core Athlon Neo. You can't beat that for the price.

On the cheap front, a sweet gateway is around for less than 400 american bucks. Sporting an ATI X1270 low power version, and Athlon L110 (pre-Neo?) that comes at 1.2Ghz. Someone at youtube overclocked this minibeast to 1.6Ghz, extra processing power enough to make it play 1080p movies smoothly.

Ok, everything I mentioned is AMD... but everybody seems to knows the intel offerings pretty well.