If you're going to be travelling overseas, you may not want to take your expensive MacBook Pro or Sony Vaio laptop, which could get lost, stolen or broken.

Instead, take a long one of these smartbooks. You get the day-long battery life, and if you break it, well, it didn't cost all that much to begin with. The smartbooks are perfect for surfing the web and email.

Erick, please post some info.

RobD, unlucky about not seeing £200 laptops being a good idea, kids and parents love them. They are disposable at that price, £50/year over 4 years is only 15 pence a day.

I would like car-netbook, ;-)

...my personal portable SNES-Mulator for the go
lol

But seriously, smart 'portables' can always use a little more power or a little more batt life. In the end, it might even inspiring new designs (read tablet-like thing for a slash the price of apple's tablet).

And about my 'snesbook', I even hook a xbox360 usb pad on it lol
Try it!

hmmm...snapdragon is already in a few phones. If the platform is going to be used in a netbook, it better be faster the the current offerings.

the fact these go all day without plugging in gives them a market more glutinous notebooks can't compete with. my question for this new smartbook is, will it be locked down like so many phones making it difficult installing linux? I'm sure droid is ok but i'd rather have maemo with iptables and all the other nice tools I've been spoiled with.

I was wrong about netbooks thinking they would not have much of a market due to their low power, etc. Of course in retrospect they seem like a nice little portable PC for those times when all you need to do is surf the web or write a paper or something. For the most part I think netbooks have a huge market as an additional PC, meaning the fact that they run windows and can run word, etc is a huge plus.

Is there really a market for a crappier netbook that is not software compatible with the primary PC, especially when netbooks keep getting a little bit better with each revision of the Atom?