first off,
"With current operating systems, as the number of cores increases performance decreases"

Seriously? I think I understand what point you were trying to make, as to the true utilization of each core, but really, this is a very incomplete statement at best. How do you become an Engadget writer? Manage to stay your whole first day without setting fire to something?

Second, I live around and work with all the bozos that work out in Redmond, and I can tell you without question that if Microsoft is involved with any innovation whatsoever, it's a lot of ETH Zurich and very little Microsoft.

calling youtube hd "the real computer killer of our times" is sort of revealing as to just how little this writer knows about computers. or how little he assumes we all know. like when start-up time of a program is used as a cpu benchmark.

It's very interesting for me to watch when the public has a chance to uphold or dispose of a long standing company. An example in the opposite direction is GM, where citizens seem to rally to buy American cars, for better or worse, for the sake of a company they owe no loyalty. Many companies are now being replaced by one's own computer, or by services provided by means we hadn't thought of a while ago, like VOIP for phone, email for postage, and in this case, home video. There would be, in my opinion, a loud public campaign to keep companies like Blockbuster alive if Blockbuster had made any moves in it's long career to garner real loyalty, to do something inherently good or selfless. The general opinion is that Blockbuster wasn't all that nice, unfair at times, and now that opinion allows people to watch happily while they thrash around before drowning. Let's hope banks are next.

yeah, me too, i want the form factor to stay the same, but I want them to actually have worse and worse specs. and less hard drive space. 11.6 inches is mammoth! i can't even fit that in my chest pocket! there are at least 2 models of netbook smaller than this, and by almost 2 inches! that's rediculous! why on earth would i sacrifice 1.6 inches of my leather fanny pack for another stupid processor core, or a competitive gpu? who even uses gpu's anyway? well said pika, i think you really are on to something that no one ever thought of, they want to turn a profit. let's tell the world, we can't let this go unnoticed!

Most Linux distros don't need trashing by Microsoft. Use them for a couple of days exclusively, they trash themselves.

amazing. how does microsoft spontaneously create all this stuff? pinch to zoom, home button on the bottom front for easy navigation, automatic picture reorientation, wifi browser, on screen keyboard, video, music, album art, scrolling, swipe to flip photos, volume control both on side and on screen, and PODCASTS, my gosh, where would we be if Microsoft hadn't invent POD casts?

man, I know i'm greedy, but imagine a utopian future where you could get this device except programmers were able to write applications for it at home and you could just pay for and download them on the device. the possibilities are endless. ooh, and imagine all the data on the device easily recognized it's formation and oriented itself to be a contact, e-mail address, physical address, or phone number. oh, and you know what would be crazy awesome? if you could rent movies on that thing! or play games!

I think that all the people who, in the past, just wanted something in their pocket to watch movies, play music, browse the internet, and so on will FINALLY have a way to do it. i'm tearing up now microsoft, you glorious inventors you, you bastions of originality, you juggernauts of creativity.

for $62 dollars, you can buy a gameboy advance sp and an sd card reader, and then torrent entire libraries of books for free. It's backlit, the screen is a fine size, and you can effect the font size to your liking. I have been reading books on it for 3 years, and i'm only taking up about 20mb of the 1gb sd card. also, amber lit converter (also free) will convert stray .lit files and the proprietary sony format in less than 3 seconds on the slowest computer you can find.

For an Engadget writer to say it's hard to do his job on a phone (and then weirdly blame the phone) is like a 12 year old in space camp complaining that he can't fly home on a paper airplane, and then attempting to coerce you into the downfalls of construction paper. Your job could be done by a monkey, in fact, I think your job would be better left to one of those pigeons who just jots down the proper reaction to the proper stimulus. We don't need to hear that every last robot you see will potentially kill us all, it wasn't that funny the first 5,200 times. We don't need your half baked opinion on gadgets at all, and interestingly, you guys seem to have the least insight of all the journalists reporting on tech. How about an interview with a real chip maker with actual facts? How about breakdowns of electronics where you don't list the description as "It's totally complicated?" How about not using the same tired terminology, such as "...gets reviewed" or "in the wild"? These terms aren't cute, aren't clever, and are journalistically unprofessional and unfunny. You couldn't chat with your buddies about your dopey job on your toy phone? Did you get a lollipop on the way out? I imagine the "chat" engadget's office has "working" anyhow is 9/10 "lol's" and other moronic crap that could be ignored or done over the phone in 5 minutes anyhow. This is not a statement about the iphone, it really is a revealing look at the children that are in business that thinking they are actually accomplishing something, when all they actually do is mix around and comment on others, and call that commentary "work".

normally i would look up the word "avoirdupois", but i'm not going to bother because i assume engadget has screwed up just one more word in a long , long, Long, litany of misprints, to the extent that it is now quite commonplace.





jk, i know what it means, but still.

I think the sweet spot for these netbooks will be when the atom 2.0ghz dual is running in them, with a normal hard drive, the 9400m, and 2gb ram. It will be really fun to have lan parties on airplanes.