Make it fit where my car stereo "was" and make it do these things and I will buy one soon:

* GPS sat nav Tomtom preferred.
* DVD player to keeps kids entertained.
* Mobile internet sim slot for internet access.
* TV (proper TV) analog and digital freeview.
* Remote control and steering wheel control and voice control.
* Synchronisable with my mp3/phone/laptop email/facebook and other stuff.
* Gaming - proper games for me and the kids.
* DAB Radio.

And that's about it. I would love one of those in my car so much I would tell the car maker that I wouldn't buy their overpriced £1,500 satnav, £1000+ dvd player, £600 multi-cd player.

i totally agree. $500? it's like buying a smartphone without a plan! but, it's a smart*book*

yes, very smart of someone to spend $500 on a computer that is less capable than my eee

Please stop regurgitating Microsofts
crap marketing speel. They are still
netbooks

MS and Intel created that term as well; as far as I am concerned, they're laptops, plain and simple. Those who stick with the standard OS can do so, but a full Debian + KDE4 install runs just fine on my EeePC 701 and EeePC 900a.

Notebooks, all the way.

500 bucks for something less powerful and less versatile than a full-fldged atom netbook is a joke.

A Netbook is really just a tiny cheap laptop, but it's still a complete x86 computer. A Smartbook is more like a smartphone in that it uses an ARM based chip, not x86. You won't be seeing Win XP or Windows 7 on a smartbook.

Please stop regurgitating Microsofts crap marketing speel. They are still netbooks regardless of what the press reports. Anyway, this is a great netbook and it will sell fantastically.