Apart from that I can carry it around in my bag, the one I already carry anyway; not another laptop bag I have to haul around with a 2 kg laptop in it hurting my shoulders. And still have room to take a book or whatever you put in your bag.

The other Wind is almost permanently hooked up to my stereo, playing Last.fm or Wolfgangs Vault, or other music that you can store on its 160GB hdd.

Quite frankly if you look at this article: http://www.toms...e,news-937.html it is very clear that Intel is making quite a nice hunk of cash on these Atom processors. In fact I would wager that
Intel doesn’t make 150% profits on the Celeron processors that go into low end laptops which would be the most likely thing the consumer would buy instead of a netbook.

Much more likely is that Intel’s marketing department has spent years now trying to convey the message that the most awesome computers available have Intel Inside. They don’t want Atom to be placed in products that look like full fledged laptops because they won’t perform the way they think an Intel brand laptop should.

You should also note that Microsoft has placed explicit and arbitrary requirements on hardware for it to qualify for Windows 7 Starter Edition licensing and pricing. It seems to me that they are much more worried about not selling high end OS licenses than Intel is worried about not selling non Atom chips.