I, personally, like the laptops over netbooks, but netbooks are great for browsing. If you are considering netbooks I can offer you this information:

Samsung NC20 $549, Lenovo IdeaPad S12 1 GIG of memory, 160 gig harddrive. $429 are the two best netbooks besides the Sony which is costly. Via nano base chips are the better performers compared to the Adam which is Intel.

Hope that helps.