I've seen these netbooks (I'm one of the students recieving them) and you CANNOT do ANYthing but word processing well on them. it's a 10" screen, so that leaves any form of graphics works out of the question, and internet browsing with IE leaves between 10 to 15cm of room for the page because of IE's massive address, book mark and tab bars. They would be relatively simple to hack, just install ubuntu on them, flash the bios using software and tada, hacked netbook. Also, the tracking chip, could you not just block the signal with a faraday cage and watch the reactions? :D

Seriously, I'm getting this game whether they ban the sale here or not! It's my bloody* diplomatic right to play this :D @Idiomatic - An english friend of mine was once asked: What's the legal drinking age over there. he replied saying "11" "Oh wait do you mean legally?" :D *hehe, get it? :P

OpenLiero Xtreme is really fun. You can play singleplayer, or lan and online. its 2d, so it will run easily on those pcs, and you can dl new menu themes, characters, weapon packs, etc. Best of all its only about 50 mb, you dont need to install it and its free :) http://lxalliance.net/LXRS/index.php?page=liero_xtreme_download

While they are at it, they should get rid of the stupid det portal. All it does is slow down the internet at schools. It hinders learning because you cannot go on almost ANY informative sites etc. so, to the aussie gov techies, refer to the above comment.