Originally Posted by bizzz111

If you want good battery life, look for an acer timeline. Larger screen than your average netbook (13.3" vs. 8-11"), tons more memory (4gb vs. 1gb), larger hard drive (320gb) and a tad better video card for playing movies. Supposedly gets 8+ hours battery life which is much better than the average netbook out there. Of course it is a bit more expensive, but not a ton.

The line between netbooks and notebooks is blurring very quickly. Unless the netbook manufacturers figure something out to really sell their devices, it won't make any sense to buy one over a thin, light, more powerful notebook. The limitations imposed by microsoft for a single core processor and 1 gb of ram really hamstrung the netbook market.