Countless of my friends have also postponed plans to buy a netbook.

Intel is going to get a shock of their lives when they see Snapdragon picking up pace rapidly.

This is what I have beens stressing all this while, people use their netbooks as a secondary device and merely to surf the net. Everyone has a primary PC or notebook at home that can handle heavy duty stuff.

Thus, the smartbook now is the ideal tool. Half the weight of a traditional netbook and yet can handle all the Internet stuff. And it can handle 720p well too. But lets face it, people watch 720p or 1080p movies either on their Bluray players or their primary PCs at home.

Most people, just download the 350MB torrent (for TVs) or the 700MB torrent (for movies) and happily play them on their netbooks. Nobody really bothers whether their netbook or Smartbook can play HD or not.

But in the case of the Smartbook, its a double bonus as it can play 720p movies well.

And seriously, no oe bothers to play 1080p files on their PCs. The files are way too big and no one in their right mind would waste their time downloading them.

With all the above in mind, it can be seen that the traditional N280/N450 netbook will suffer big time. Very big time.