Lenovo Unveils First Ion Powered Netbook

Shame its from Lenovo though...I have had bad experiences with that company. I tried buying one of their business line notebooks a year ago and when I got it the screen had several dead pixels, finger prints, and scratches on it. I tried getting a replacement right away and the woman for customer service said they would gladly replace it but then when I sent it in they called me back and said they wouldn't give me a new one because it didn't meet the required number of dead pixels. I asked them to just replace the screen then and they said they would...if I was willing to cough up another $750 for parts and labor after I just paid $1400 for what should have been a brand new machine. So then I asked for my money back and it took me another 7 weeks of angry phone calls to get them to agree to give me a refund, and then another 3 weeks on top of that to get them to agree to drop the 15% restocking fee.

Dell and Samsung make much better products and have much better customer service. For those of you who want an Ion based netbook I'd suggest waiting until a better company makes one.

@ Wesley
The problem is that your experience probably will depend almost entirely on whatever rep you dealt with. Service quality differs wildly, depending on what mood they happen to be in. As I've had some awful experiences with Samsung and some good.

@GherkinG - I had the exact same thoughts. I *guess* it will only be successful at native BR decoding and not x264 (unless you use CoreAVC which can delegate Cuda decoding to the GPU). Otherwise, for the remaining codecs, I suppose the machine will be CPU limited. MKV is, as you know, just a container and should not be affected, given the appropriate splitter is in place.

@Gordon... Only a *cough* full review (when available)will do mate!

"until later this summer" .. I will just have to keep wiping my chin ;)

Well since I had to call them back atleast 45+ times I'd say that a large percentage of their customer service staff is quite terrible because I got stuck with a different person almost every time and each time it was a bad experience. I've always found that Dell has the absolute best customer service of any PC brand I've dealt with, on the few occasions that I had to call them they were always very pleasant and willing to do whatever they could to make things right.