Firefox is good news with this, it would only require fully working and fast flash plugin
I wouldn't get your hopes up on that, Adobe doesn't really give a damn about platforms that aren't the mainest of the mainstream (look at how long smartphones and tablets had to be a big thing before there was an ARM Flash port.) If Lightspark gets its act together it might be worth a port, but don't count on getting YouTube any time soon.
With that price it doesn't need to have any advantage over x86/window/LINUX netbooks, but it needs to be working solution.
That's exactly why this is way,
way better news than the X1000. At this price it's an obvious moderate hobby purchase, not a big-bucks trophy item for die-hards, and that's apt to appeal to a
lot more than just the few most dedicated OS4 die-hards. It's still not quite as cost-effective as a refurbished PowerBook, but then it's new hardware, not used, so what the hey.
Who needs Flash anymore? Not me, I won't miss flash adverts and relatively crap free flash games that are surrounded by flash adverts all over the page. HTML5 will make a lot of inroads over the next few years. Flash is slow on Macs (ok its got better over the years), Flash isn't support on iPad, Flash quickly drains laptop battery life, Flash is proprietary (sp) software, Flash isn't available on anything but PCs and Macs, Flash is dying a slow death. HTML5 is the rising through the ashes.
I know that it's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem (Flash won't die while HTML5 is still only starting to gain acceptance, HTML5 won't gain real acceptance while Flash lives,) but there's still a lot of sites that are Flash-dependent, and some of them are even worthwhile. The Escapist, for example, only offers HTML5 video to subscribers, and while I loves me some
Zero Punctuation, I'm sure as hell not going to shell out just to be able to watch it on platforms that don't support Flash.