Honestly every single person who is talking about what graphics cards they have in their home PCs you are just dumb as hell ... Why would you even make a comparison? It would be like saying "ya why would I want a really cool efficient bike? I already have a Chevy Suburban at home!" It makes no sense. Netbooks are tiny and cheap, very useful work tools with the potential for some great casual gaming. That is all. Get over yourself and your 3-way SLI GT295s. No one is impressed.
Please stop the stupid comments! (as if saying that will work). Yes, you can game on a NetBook. No, you should not expect modern games to work. WoW on min. settings plays OK until you try Northrend. Other games in my library like Oblivion and Mass Effect I wouldn't even try. FPS would be a joke - even if they ran, lag and the tiny screen would make you completely uncompetitive. However, as macros746 exclaimed, there are a LOT of classic games out there from 2004 and earlier that will run smoothly on a netbook. They may not have the glorious graphics of modern gaming, but graphics have never, and will never, make a game great. Also, you can run dosbox (to play some seriously old classics) as well as Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Genesis, etc., emulators. So, for $200-300, you can play a lot of great classic games on the run on a system that is ALSO extremely useful for students, bloggers, children, or anyone else who just needs a tiny portable computer with a fully functional OS. Speaking of which, almost all of the units are upgradeable to 2GB of RAM (the Aspire One is the exception, it can only be upgraded to 1.5 GB) and with 2GB and Windows XP, you can run multiple applications (think Word, Excel, FF, MSN, etc) and the thing will run smoothly. In the end, I ditched my netbook dream and picked up an aluminum MacBook. Money wasn't an issue for me (lucky me) and 4.5lbs and serious processing power beat out the tiny netbooks for my (mostly business) purposes.
I've been using OSX for 3 years... None of this is anything new. MS just copies Mac like they've been doing since Windows 3.0 "borrowed" everything found in Mac System 6, but with horrible results. Enjoy your Vista. I'm sticking to XP for at least 6 months until the bugs are worked out. I'll let others be the testers and have their gaming passwords key-logged through security holes because MS STILL won't assume a UNIX based system and will forever stick to their own, inferior, home-made "system registry" Good luck. I don't know what all of the fuss is about.
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