I think the thing compounding the problem is that there has never been a well priced, small laptop with a decent battery life. I mean I can pay $450 for a Aspir

I think the thing compounding the problem is that there has never been a well priced, small laptop with a decent battery life. I mean I can pay $450 for a Aspire One with 6 hours battery life, whilst before I could pay $800 for a 'cheap' laptop (like the dell latitudes) that had 3 hour battery life and was the bastard child of a real laptop. My laptop cost around $1100 dollars, yet it was like more than 4 times more powerful than the latitudes (thank god they got discontinued). I would pay $400 for a netbook, most of which aren't that bad. 1.6 ghz processor, which some have the intel 945gm in, which in my 3.2ghz laptop can push 1080p, so something like an aspire one with a 945gm could easily push 720p to an external screen, which means it can essentially do everything except like post 2007 high-end games. However when you think about it, what moron is going to try and play like Far Cry 2 on a 9 inch screen?