Also, any HD video acceleration offered by Intel will be inferior compared to what this netbook has: NVIDIA gpu. NVIDIA gpu's can even be used by CoreAVC codec for hardware acceleration, which is the best h264 codec out there by far.
The real rub is... are you really going to wait more than a year to see if a better netbook comes out? This thing's got it all: portability, power of the dual core desktop class atom, screen capable of 720p, a decent OS, HD acceleration, and an affordable price. If you're in the market for a netbook, I'd snatch it the day it comes out instead of waiting around a year to see what might get announced, hyped, manufactured, and shipped only to find out that it's only a little bit better than this netbook.
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