Genesi Efika MX Smartbook

[Iggy]

Ubuntu is a sluggish monster on everything, to be honest. Being more lightweight than Vista isn't enough anymore.

I don't have any problem with it, even on a single processor G4 system. The Genesi system might be slightly slower, but I've been using since I had a 733 Mhz processor in my Powermac and the only thing that was slow were certain graphics packages (no decent support for Flash under PPC Linux either - rather like MorphOS).

[Iggy]

Whats the point of a touch screen on a notebook?

A8 is not a bad processor, just because A9 and A15 perform higher does mean the A8 isn't more than adequate.
Touchscreen, touchpads? I'd still rather have a mouse.
The problem is I can get an Atom based netbook for about the same price (with video output) that will outperform Genesi's offering.
An OMAP A9 based system would have been better and would not have cost as much.

Next year OMAP moves to the A15. Then performance will be higher than Atom.

I could see buying a netbook based on that processor for $299.