I have an ExoPC. The battery life is about 3 1/2 hours with Wifi on, about 5 hours with it off. The 2MB of RAM is the max an N450 can handle. The machine is great, it has super snappy performance with the fast SSD drive and the Broadcom Crystal HD. You only notice that the CPU is slow if you are doing things that really require processing power. Most of the time the performance is much better than your average netbook. As for the price, well, it's exactly the same as an iPad ($599 for 32GB, $699 for 64 GB) and much higher performance. You really can't compare it to a netbook... yeah, it's an N450 but the overall specs are far better than your typical $300 netbook: SSD versus 5400 RPM hard drive, 1368x768 11.7 inch touchscreen vs. 1024x600 10.1" nontouchscreen, 2MB RAM vs. 1MB RAM, Crystal HD vs. no hardware video acceleration. You get what you pay for.