Got the new netbook a few days ago from the corner Costco store for the same price as I paid for my last one a year ago, $300.

Here's a link to the Acer site for this model.

It's this year's model of the basically the same thing as last year, but with a bit larger screen, bigger hard drive, and more RAM. The resolution on this screen is 1366x768, taller than the 600 line screen on last year's model. This is very useful, because there are still many sites and apps that are set up for a minimum line resolution of 640 (VGA) so sometimes they are hard to get to work on the old model.

This model has 320GB hard drive and 2GB of ram, which can be upgraded to 4GB (recommended: $30 at Crucial). This ram is intended to be upgraded, as the bottom cover has one screw and then it slides forward (don't pry it up) to remove. Ram upgrade was completely uneventful and has been working without incident.

The screen is a little bigger (11.6" widescreen CineCrystal [whatever that means]) and it has an AMD C-Series Processor C-50 (1.0GHz, 1MB L2 cache) for a CPU. It's not a speed demon, but hey, it's a netbook. It's hyper-threaded, and mostly adequate. There have been some issues with the Windows 7 Home Premium OS where the System process suddenly jumps to 50% CPU utilization, but after flashing to the latest version of the BIOS (1.07) it seems to have lessened the issue if not eliminated it.

It has the standard webcam, multi-card reader, touchpad, N WiFi, and an Ethernet port. With a VGA, 3 USB's and an HDMI port can connect to most everything.

I have officially turned over my old large laptop, and now use this netbook for everything I do (YES including software development). My son now enjoys the use of last year's model. In short, a decent netbook and no real troubles. Biggest improvements over last year's is the larger screen size and resolution, the larger memory and hard drive, and Windows Home Premium instead of Starter. I use it both at home and at the office, and it's kept up with everything I've asked it to do. So far so good, let's see what they come up with next year...