I'd still like to see someone do one of these things without a keyboard. Not one that tilts, not one that roates; no keyboard whatsoever. Just a touch screen with the computer guts inside it. A pure websurfing netpad. (Of course it would have USB ports, so you could attach an external keyboard when necessary). Since these things are going to be a 3rd computer, or a secondary laptop, it wouldn't be the disadvantage it would be if it were someone's main machine.

There's nothing wrong with mixing tits and technology. Relax.

I've pretty much decided that if it's bigger than an iPhone or Blackberry and has anything near a full-size keyboard, then the Atom processor isn't going to give me enough performance for the range of apps I want to run. As a 2nd laptop, not bad. If it were for a kid, not bad either (unless they will play games on it, too). But for an average user who does internet, office, multimedia, and occasional games, Atom just doesn't have it. Maybe the Nano is good enough when paired with decent GPU & memory. I'm not terribly concerned with battery life. It's rare that I'm away from a power plug for hours at a time. 3 hours seems like a reasonable target, but even 2 hours I'd live with.

Ok Scott now there is some cute girls. Vacuous blonds need not apply.

"Fortified with booth babes."
(sheds a tear)
I love this site. Not just for the booth babes, but also for the "fortified."

This notebook doesn't have any NV silicon on it, AFAIK. So what the heck is it doing at the nVision conference?

funky shift on the keyboard, arg!

Getting tired of manufacturers including 3 cell or 4 cell batteries in their netbooks for 2.5 hours of battery life. They tend to overstate the battery life as well; 3 hours of life while idling is a worthless statistic since no one's going to idle the thing for 3 hours.

I wish the costs would come down too; interesting devices but all of the first gen ones seem to have some sort of problem be it functionality or design.

$800 for an Atom-based ultraportable tablet vs. twice that for a typical 12" tablet... admittedly the typical tablet is waaaay faster.

Hmmm... I dunno. There's definitely a market for devices like this-- I can imagine tons of uses-- but I'm not sure I could make the sacrifice in processing power when I can get a typical netbook for $500ish..

Whatever happened to the no booth babe policy? :-\

Can these netbooks that are coming out now power an external display well?

Tell me Scott you didn't go get a pedicure just for nvision, now did ya?

Looking forward to the review of this laptop. It would be nice if it had the option 2gb, a 32gb SSD and Vista business.

In the review could you spend some time checking the screen quality, one of the problems with tablets is that the tech behind them limits image quality and viewing angles.