Re Albert and Jerome0

I'm agree with you - there's no way that a netbook should be £350 as that's putting it firmly into cheap laptop territory.

Besides, if you got an netbook for about £190, then it's only about £70 to add a high capacity battery. So that's £90 less for something comparable, but with a 1" smaller screen (big deal!). Heck even if I go for a fancy 10" version the difference is still about £50 - so that Samsung is over-priced imho!

Re: Jerome0 - I too bought an AAO, (but mine cost more than £200 - darn it!), and if the battery life is the main drawback then I'd seriously recommend the 6cell battery. Okay it's another £70 and it does stick out so much that using the supplied sleeve case is impossible, on the other hand it raises the machine up nicely for typing; isn't that much extra weight; and I get about four hours from a full battery in normal Ubuntu use (and the supplied 3cell makes a nice spare).

Hopefully the manufacturers will over estimate the number of netbooks being bought for Christmas and hence there'll be some reasonably priced units in the New Year sales.

Sigh

Bog standard features? Check!

Crappy intel chipset? Check!

Less than adequate screen resolution? Check!

Microsoft Tax? Check!

3G modem non existent? Check!

Stupidly overblown price? Check!

Yep, it's a 2009 netbook alright.

Microsoft and intel can go and get stuffed.

I can't wait for the ARMbooks to arrive.