Well I am sorry to say my fortune telling is coming true. The price of Netbooks has been successfully and slowly pushed up and up towards the laptops. This will open the inevitable conversation “the gap is so small in price” what's the point of putting up with a device that is missing some stuff on a laptop i.e. dvdrom drive.

It is a sad day indeed but I see the end of the main driver for netbooks on the Horizon. Things have gone from a US$299 netbook to US$720. Don't say its got lots of nice stuff in it to justify its higher cost because that was the argument made in the standard Laptop discussions. “Buy more power and stuff in your laptop sir” (and we will raise the price) – even thoughyou don't need the extra stuff….

More likely, this is just ultralights coming after the generic 15″ notebook in its home territory. It's got NVidia graphics and 1366×768 resolution, and most people don't understand or care about the performance difference between an N280 and whatever's in entry-level notebooks today anyway.

Why would you want to carry around a bloated 6 pound brick instead of a svelte 3 pound machine? Just to get a DVD drive? A lot of people won't care enough.

In portable electronics smaller usually wins, even if it's more expensive.