The video properties are more than adequate for running dvd video as well as most other formats, I haven't tried 720 yet. Argos are currently doing the u135D for under 150 pounds. The only critisism is the damned warranty sticker which infers that the warranty becomes invalid if broken. I seem to remember some retailers were refusing to honour warranties because of ram upgrades not carried out by them. The court came down on the side of the upgrader. It being the case that as the computer was screwed together and that upgrades were freely available on the high st. Perhaps this needs to be pointed out to the retailer and manufacturer.

These guys have lost sight of the USP of these devices. They need to go to £199 price point and below.

That's what the original Asus EEE did but with Linux. MS need to release XP/7 at a low enough licence price for netbooks so they can hit £200 mark.

I do NOT want Windows 7. I do NOT want another netbook with only 600 pixels of vertical resolution.
Tell MS and Intel where they can stick their artificial hardware restrictions on what a netbook is "allowed to be" and let the customers decide what they want...
If one of these gutless manufacturers had the nerve to release a netbook with a little higher display resolution at a reasonable price point I would snatch one up. Till then I'm perfectly happy with the netbook I have which PROMPTLY had Fedora installed on it instead of the garbage of an "os" it was shipped with...

It's so pathetic to charge money for a stripped down OS and want more money for a regular version. Even if you wipe off windows and installed Ubuntu which would be the smart thing do,(for me anyway) you have thrown away money. Then there's the "You can only install 1gb ram because its a netbook" even through you want might Linux on it any way. I admit it, I really can't stand Microsoft. A company with no morals or scruples.GREED is all they know.