Netbook v Low Notebooks

Been looking at getting a netbook and notebook but considering putting off a few months in order to hopefully get a much better spec of laptop, maybe with the mobile i7 cpu that I've read about.

Anyway looking for a netbook and would like to do some basic gaming, mainly of stuff from 5-6 years ago, (RA2, AOE, FM, etc) but also wondering about some of the newer small PC's like the Acer Timeline series.

Like a netbook they have pretty poor Intel GMA graphics processors but Core 2 Solo Processors would these play the same sort of games, etc as a Netbook with the Intel Atom processor?>

 

This might interest you:
http://www.liliputing.com/2009/09/acer-aspire-1410-vs-asus-eee-pc-1101ha-gaming-edition-video.html

I think it's too early to tell how the new low-end CULVs with 4500MHD will perform in gaming. My guesstimate is 50%-100% faster than current netbooks.

ION netbooks might be an interesting alternative.

 

An Acer 1410/1810 or other small computer with a low power Core 2 Solo and GMA 4500 graphics will be much better then an Atom and the old GMA 950 graphics. The Core 2 Solo has more cpu power and the graphics are 2 generations ahead

 

Been looking at the Acer Timeline 3810 or even 4810, would they be better than a netbook performance wise?

 

Yes, in both CPU and GPU power.

 

If i could turn back time i would have not bought my dv5, and instead i would buy a lenovo or something because i dont even want to take this brick to uni since it weighs a ton. And i think i can survive without playing the latest games.

 

pretty much anything runs faster than netbooks, you just have to do the size/speed comparison to see if the tradeoff is worth it.