If the laptop had reasonable processing power - comparable to core2 @ 2 Ghz or thereabouts -

and 4GB of RAM...

and could run proper 64 bit OS (not like Atom processors which are complete rubbish)...

and had good build quality...

and a decent 13.3 inch screen...

and decent graphics...

and reasonable battery life...

I'd get one!!

...I just don't want one with Intel's garbage graphics in it. Offer the CULV with ATI or NVidia in an 11.6 or 12.1 platform, I'll be all over it. Looks like the Congo platform is going to be my only choice, because the 9400M only seems to come with Atom.

CULV and especially the dual-core CULV is a great product that fills a need - they just marry it to 6 year old graphics tech that cripples the performance.

Lawrence said "How dumb do you think people are?"

Um, do you really want me to answer that one? How many people fall for the Nigerian scam and its variants after 10 years of warnings? How many people open email attachments and click on links in unsolicited emails after 20 years of warnings? How many people buy Monster cables, or think that Apple computers are value for money? How many people vote, thinking they are really making a change?

Should I stop here? :-)

Ultrathins, CULV/ULVs ... it’s all just an attempt to get the punters to pay more than they would for a netbook, without actually offering them much more. Just so the vendors can shore up their sagging profit margins.

Will it work?

How dumb do you think people are?

Yeah, make a nice processor but fall flat to integrate a gpu then unleash shills to make poems.

Way down deep in the middle of the Congo,
A hippo took an apricot, a guava and a mango.
He stuck it with the others, and he danced a dainty tango.
The rhino said, "I know, we'll call it Um Bongo"
Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo.

If I was an Intel employee, I'd be sure to bash the competition every chance I got, because Intel has nothing that even comes close to NVidia/ATI when it comes to graphics.

Congo is going to bring real 3D capability to netbooks, as the 9400M from NVidia did.

Intel's offering cripples the whole system, and they can't write a graphics driver to save their lives. It's no surprise that thin and lights aren't selling as well as expected - real thin and lights haven't been released yet, i.e. with a non-crippled graphics solution.

So I can understand an Intel marketer/PR/employee bashing Congo. Those that can do, those that can't, knock those that can.

Please never, ever, ever mention that again.

Intel has good (overpriced) product

Nvidia had good (overpriced) product

AMD/ATI has good product

Apple is just blatantly (over-overpriced) retarded, they should die of VD and rot in hell

@ Intel lover

Go get yourself a couple i7 975's for your internet surfing and stfu.

@ AMD Fanboi

Sure its not nvidia your referring to?

I too hope Intel customers will not buy this "crap". I hope Intel customers will continue to gleefully shovel money in to the greedy pockets of an abusive corporation, in exchange for dramatically overpriced and often times mediocre products, products that often lack whats considered basic or standard functionality, all from a company that cares so much about its customer base and the market in general that when a product is flawed, instead of just admitting it and fixing it, they deny it, try to cover it up, and when all else fails, resorts to mafia style threats to silence its critics...

You keep right on feeding the beast...

@ Intel lover

Do you have a real life or you just get aroused by writing stupid comments?

I hope Intel customers will not buy these craps.