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Netbooks Will Push Games to the Cloud

Funny, this is an old article but since I've JUST gotten my wife a netbook this Christmas and we are waiting for it.. I am looking up what games we could play on it, but all this knowing deep inside that most of the games that aren't super cutting edge will probably work. I read the article but didn't weed through ALL of the comments so please ignore what I repeat.

First off, just thought I'd add - this article is good, and its true that netbooks are going to have a great impact on the computing industry. Gaming? yes, that too but to what extent, I wouldn't venture to say I even can predict. Most predictions about technology is hit and miss. We just don't know! But yes I agree it is possible that the netbooks may push games to the "cloud". We first thought about the netbooks for our kids - 8 and 7 yrs old. They love games that will play beautifully on the netbooks. But then my wife decided she likes them too, so that's that!

The netbooks since this article may have changed, but lets get down to what ours will be -- we ordered an MSI Wind which, of all the netbooks comes with a 10.1" screen rather than 8.9 for the same price. Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz CPU, 1 GB memory, Intel® GMA950 graphics, and 120 gb hard drive.

Honestly? Aside from being unsure of the graphics card, as I haven't looked into it... This baby will play many of the games out there today-- again, not the super cutting edge ones like crysis, bioshock.. or what not.. Many of the newer mmos take into account lower end machines since they want a large following.. so i'm inclined to think they'll work too.

just my 2 cents! (or 10)