Originally Posted by Frogroast 
You need to be careful - not all netbooks are built the same and I'm not just talking memory, display, hard drive.
Some of these netbooks are not built with the poweruser in mind but moreso the elementary school kids that need a wordprocessing, email, and web box to throw in their backpacks.
Before you buy one, check to make sure the video chip is a good one (anything labeled simply "integrated" is probably not worth getting into), that it has at least 2GB RAM and DDR2 (most do) and either XP Pro or Vista Home Premium (many have WinXP Home or Vista Basic).
Otherwise they are great portable machines if you can deal with the typical 1024x600 display.
I'd say NO netbook is made with the power user at mind and really they shouldn't be. As far as netbooks go they all have integrated, slow'ish graphics cards, and usually come with XP or Linux (I haven't seen a true netbook offered with Vista). As far as XP Pro vs XP Home there won't be any real difference to the typical end user unless you need Remote Desktop "server" or other advanced networking features. Very few of them are expandable past 1.5 gigs of memory.
These are all the things that make a netbook a netbook and not just a really small notebook computer that costs $1000.
John