The next step after Asus 701!

What's the CPU in this thing?

And for the English version of the video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F2V_5hDrPQ

Really, how many of us do you expect to speak German?

Why would they load Opera on to this? Isn't the default Android browser something based on Chrome (if not Chrome itself) therefore actually rather decent, if not the finest browser out there (other than Iron of course!)?

Not necessarily, a lot of people still want to run some flavor of windows OS and that requires an x86 processor.

Online office is gonna be the key. I don't know about your 90% statistic (seems way too high) but the average seems to want to do a few things. Which is, browse the web, listen to music, watch (flash) video and do some work in office applications.

Really Zoho/Google Docs/Microsoft Web Apps are all lacking when it comes to online office applications, so there needs to be improvement there.

Flash still isn't in Android 2.1 so that nixes a huge amount of the internet.

People will love this thing until they cant do their office/homework on it and then can't watch hulu.

To one who preconditions others with “only an idiot would…”, I submit that anybody who uses “online office applications” as part of their workflow is probably more computing-active than computing-intelligent. Microsoft and Sun pushed the “software as service” model for a long time, and Google is late to the party but coming on strong. Computing as a service can be in the consumer's best interest, but very few examples actually are.

Web-services shutdown, website policies change, and pricing models can switch abruptly. While I'm sure that you knew what the AGPL was and why some people thought it was important enough to create before you shot off with your “idiot” comment, the sad fact is that the “90% of people” that you're referring to don't know. They're the ones in peril. Look no further than recent problems with Facebook to see how a simple change in policies can adversely affect people who became dependent on that web-service. Perhaps the most illustrative example of any of this is what happened with Electronic Arts “free” game Battlefield Heroes. It's hard to blame them for being so ignorant. Billions of dollars are spent every year to form them into blind, abiding, money tossing consumers, and there's almost no opposing force at work.

The bottom-line is that when you decide to TRUST in the good-will of a business who is responsible only to its shareholders, then you get what you deserve in the end, especially when you're not actually a customer who pays them any money. The problem with a device like this isn't the hardware, it's the software. I think that you have the interpretation wrong. The fact that you CAN access online office software services is not a feature. The fact that you CAN ONLY access online software services is a bug. I, for one, don't know why anybody store data somewhere else using tools that they neither own nor have guaranteed access to, unless they either don't care about or legitimately hate the data that they're creating. Maybe that's just because the things I do with computing I depend on for such mundane things as feeding my family, providing for my shelter and safety, and paying wages of those in the community whom I employ. Perhaps if I was using my computing tools as a rehearsal platform for emotional addiction, social evasion, and degenerative communication, I'd more inclined just not to care.

I think when you see MeeGo on a device like this (not the one with Bronson Pinchot), we'll turn a corner on Netbooks.