Picked one of these up in the US just after release date as I travel a lot and wanted a netbook with good battery life. This it has, but I wished I'd read some more reviews before purchase. It's a nice light machine and does standard web-browsing fine but it struggles with flash-heavy sites and stutters like crazy when trying to play 480p or upward YouTube videos. I haven't tried any HD mkv/h.264 videos yet but I've heard it refuses to play 1080p and only works with 720p with CoreAVC codec on the most stripped-down options. Spending a couple of weeks stuck in a hotel room in the middle of nowhere and no car or option of escaping, I wish I'd paid the $50 more and got an Ion-based 'book with dvi/hdmi so I could have connected it to the in-room HDTV and watched some films through it.
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Picked one of these up in the US just after release date as I travel a lot and wanted a netbook with good battery life. This it has, but I wished I'd read some more reviews before purchase. It's a nice light machine and does standard web-browsing fine but it struggles with flash-heavy sites and stutters like crazy when trying to play 480p or upward YouTube videos. I haven't tried any HD mkv/h.264 videos yet but I've heard it refuses to play 1080p and only works with 720p with CoreAVC codec on the most stripped-down options. Spending a couple of weeks stuck in a hotel room in the middle of nowhere and no car or option of escaping, I wish I'd paid the $50 more and got an Ion-based 'book with dvi/hdmi so I could have connected it to the in-room HDTV and watched some films through it.