We often put our 6 year old in front of our netbook to watch a video on Netflix. Playing DVDs was one of our criteria when we evaluated netbooks.

Does anyone knows how this compares to Intel's Atom? Could be nice to see some competition in the netbook segment.

wow these look sick, cant wait till they r in netbooks.

From my post way up in the thread:

I hope nVidia will support Nano CPUs with their ION platform as well as those Atoms. Then there will be a good competitor against Atom.

Though Intel doesn't support ION technology, it greatly increases the netbook's capabilities. Now they are working on hardware acceleration of HD Flash videos. I want to buy an ION for just this bit of feature.

I've got a question: Does ION platform support Intel SpeedStep? Or does the CPU always work at its highest clock?.I read that Intel doesn't give rights to 3rd companies to imply SpeedStep technology to their northbridge chips.

But that just proves that you're not using it for net only. And movie playback is getting a lot of attention on netbooks, and it's not a net thing. Sure, using the net is a major part of using netbooks, but it's also a major part of using power notebooks, or desktops, or pretty much any PC. I use the net a lot more on my home PC than I game, but that doesn't mean I want a PC that can't run games.

Why do people like you get hung on the name? I'm sure most people do non-net things on their netbook, be that writing documents or listening to music. If their netbooks were able to play games, they would have. In fact, I'm sure a lot of them are also playing flash games and maybe even Solitaire. So why shouldn't they play their favourite MMO (an obvious "net" activity) on their netbook? It's a completely illogical distinction.