About time, I've been desperate for something that can properly support apps that require 1024×768 and upwards – the Eee solution, while handy for web browsing, doesn't really cut it.

As much as I adore my 901 it does have a few too many limitations when it comes to an allround productivity machine but I'm fully expecting Ion to meet all expectations for the netbook market and more.

And Counterstrike at decent framerates to wile away long journeys, what more could you possibly want?

I'm not entirely convinced that chipset upgrades will make a lot of difference without improving the CPU.

Ever since the introduction of the Pentium M Intel has been able to charge ridiculous prices for processors with SpeedStep and low voltage, rivaling the cost of the highest performance CPUs even when they were single-core and clocked extremely low; Atom has had success despite its lackluster performance largely because Intel and other manufacturers previously left the inexpensive low-voltage market niche untouched. I'd hoped that demand and competition from Via's Nano and from AMD would force Intel to provide something substantially better in this market, perhaps by unlocking Speedstep on its low-voltage Celerons (the Celerons are about a third the cost of the Core 2 processors and SpeedStep is the biggest difference for the netbook/ultraportable space). Perhaps the CULV will be a step forward; it remains to be seen what kinds of prices those will go for.

I wonder whether CULV+GF 9400M models will come out quickly and what kind of prices they'll go for. GMA 4500 in some form + CULV won't be bad anyway (except for opengl, the 4500 is almost half as good as the GF 9400).

I honestly think people are living in a dream world if they think they're suddenly going to become media mavens or megagamers with this one chipset improvement.

It helps you watch your HD content(hopefully on an HDMI out port), and do some *light* gaming. Anything more and I think people are missing the point of just what these little devices are.

I honestly think people are living in a dream world if they think they're suddenly going to become media mavens or megagamers with this one chipset improvement.

It helps you watch your HD content(hopefully on an HDMI out port), and do some *light* gaming. Anything more and I think people are missing the point of just what these little devices are.