I forgot to mention that microwave radiation may adversely affect the atmosphere. (yeah, I wonder how many others are thinking about this...) No one knows what long term affects of pumping that much extra microwave energy through the atmosphere are.

Space Based Solar Power (SBSP) is an economical way of delivering power to remote locations or areas isolated by war.

To deliver power to a certain places in Iraq and Afghanistan it costs well over $1USD/kWh, not mention the loss of human life.

The pentagon is seriously considering SBSP as a viable way to deliver power to not only these locations, but other places of humanitarian interest.

The technology to deliver and deploy SBSP payloads (for it will take many deployments) already exist. Improvements will undoubtedly be made, and with the hopeful completion of NASA's Ares V cargo launch vehicle SBSP will be economical for the rest of us. (under 20cents(USD)/kWh.)

As for the microwave radiation concern, it is not as scary as commonly depicted. (Can anyone recall the tale of the discovery of microwave radiation as a cooking tool--something to do with a Snickers bar melting in a pocket? [Who the heck carries a Snickers bar in their pocket?]) If the size of the receiving antenna is increased, the power of the transmitted signal may be decreased on a W/m scale. With a transmitter that can 'dither' the signal over a rather wide swath one can abate errors associated with tracking, solar anomalies and human error.

Military applications, however, are not quite as concerned with stray microwave beams.

Do not forget that SBSP is exposed to the sun for 24 hours--no interruptions!

On another note the Japanese are working on developing devices that may convert solar energy to transmittable energy in upwards of 40% efficiency by converting solar power to laser.

The word/term/product (whatever) netbook is commonly referred to as an under-powered and rather featureless notebook--albeit with lower power consumption and longer battery life.
In the short term Intel may release their stranglehold on the use of the Atom processor exclusively with their own chip set: the 945g, and allow Nvidia to sell their already completed 9400M with the Intel Atom. This is another legal battle entirely. ~_~ However the 9400M does use more power, and do not forget that VIA also offers the Nano, which also uses more power but outdoes the Atom on media intense applications that demand a stronger floating-point processor.

What does this mean? (op)
A long term outlook does not look good for the Netbook. The primary reasons why one would purchase a Netbook are narrowed by size, battery life, and style. The point, if graphed, where size and power consumption meet performance and features will be ever lowered until the term Netbook becomes nothing but a semantic, oh wait, it already is.