Another case of the crap drivers for the Z5xx/GMA 500 hurting the performance. Now that more netbooks are using this chipset, hopefully we will see a major update soon.

Now if they had just stuck the N280 in there and even the GMA 950 or even the GN40 and this would have been one great 'netbook'. They pretty much ruined it when they decided to put the Z series in there. I can't wait till one manufacturer wakes up and puts the 11.6″ screen with the N280… shouldn't be long

True, but some of us rarely download anything and only use streaming video (Hulu, YouTube, Netflix, etc.) They are all pretty bad with this chipset. I own a Dell Mini 10 and can pretty much forget about anything but standard def, and no full-screen anything. I knew this going in, so it wasn't a dealbreaker for me (I have my Macbook for that stuff). The Mini 10 is mostly for work.

Too bad… the battery life is so short and they chose the wrong chipset/CPU. I had high hopes for this laptop… the size and resolution seem just about perfect for my use (coming from a 12″ PowerBook G4 and an Eee 1000HE).

They promised us super-slim and 8 hours of battery life! They failed to deliver anywhere near that with the flush-fitting battery. 3 hours without WiFi is rather poor- and totally lame for a netbook, where portability is the key feature. It won't matter if they offer a bulk-adding 6-cell, because it will ruin the slick design and portability that would have sold this thing.

I can live with the lower performance processor and chipset they used (this is not a multimedia machine). I cannot live without the battery life. Very disappointing.

Its still choppy but If you run the video through youtube with the browser ( i use chrome) to realtime priority the videos become watchable. I bet if you have an aspire with 2gb ram the videos with this method would be fine. But there is still a bit of lag but alot less.