> Though a lot of the unpleasantness of using those machines was more from the extremely anemic GPU which has also improved considerably since then. Specifical

> Though a lot of the unpleasantness of using those machines was more from the extremely anemic GPU which has also improved considerably since then. Specifically, the GMA950 that didn't have hardware video decode for H.264, which was already the mainstream choice for any Internet video. Combined with the anemic in-order Bonnell core, it was dead on arrival for most uses involving any sort of video. Some netbooks even came with a separate Broadcom PCIe card whose only purpose was hardware video decode.