For a couple hundred more, I got a ThinkPad T400 with all the toys. It's still very light and portable, and the keyboard is a million times better than anything available on a netbook.

Samsung's product would be pretty nice if they could get it to the $500 price point, but that's what it would take to be interesting to me. Oh, and 2GB of RAM standard.

How come netbooks seem to be getting away with so little RAM? Nowadays I wouldn't build a desktop with less than 4 gigs of RAM, yet netbooks routinely come with 2 or even 1!

Argh netbooks! We get it, some people like them, god I'm tired of them chewing up my real news >:(

Too expensive, and too weak. Would have been better to stick a Core Solo ULV in there, it would have been a better match.
The Ion is overkill for the Atom, and at this price, better off with a more powerful and featured ultra portable.

I bought a 15.4" HP notebook with 4GB of ram, 2.13ghz 45nm Core 2 Duo & a 9600M GT for 699.99 a few months ago.

This offering is worthless.

I think this is the most interesting entry in the "tiny, cheap, slow laptop" category so far. It combines an OK screen res with reasonable graphics and... a processor and some RAM.

I hope that the RAM can be upgraded to something respectable.

$600 is too much, IMO.

Slap a proper CPU in there like a Core2, up the RAM to 2GB, and include a free Win7 license with the XP default install.

That would justify the cost, and they might even be able to charge more, and still sell.

Mix the NC20 and this new system together for me, please!

edit: That will either result in an Atom w/ VIA graphics, or a Nano with Nvidia graphics. For clarity, I want the LATTER. :)