OK... so this thread got me thinking about getting a netbook as well.
The only problem is that when on the plane, I like to movies on my laptop.
Most of the movies I have are 1080p (and some 720p) in x264 codec (usually 4 to 12G for a movie).

Does anyone have an experience playing these heavy media files with a netbook?
Would it play at all considering most of the netbooks have Atom 1.6G processor with Intel 950 graphics (no DXVA)?

I'm too lazy to encode the movies in different res, and I'd like to avoid it if at all possible.