EDIT: Of course, I'm beaten to the punch.  Researching the Wind.

I can't begin to understand the logic in companies designing computers, that are supposed to be used primarily to view documents, having such a low vertical resolution.  For the most part, I find vertical resolution to be far more important than the horizontal.

Curiously, it took me awhile to narrow down exactly what an MSI Wind even was.  MSI, in their infinite wisdom, has decided to name three different computers the 'Wind'.  One is a small form factor, the other is an all-in-one setup, and then you have your netbook.  They're all called the 'Wind'.

For everyone wondering, the MSI Wind uses the Intel® GMA950 chip.  It supports Shader Model 2.0, but Shader Model 3.0 in software only.  I hear the engine might not be utilizing SM 3.0, but all things aside this card is very borderline.

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Graphics Core

256-bit graphics core running at 400MHz Up to 10.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth with DDR2 667 system memory 1.6 GPixels/sec and 1.6 GTexels/sec fill rate Up to 224 MB maximum video memory 2048x1536 at 75 Hz maximum resolution Dynamic Display Modes for flat-panel, wide-screen and Digital TV support Operating systems supported: Microsoft Windows* XP, Windows* XP 64bit, Media Center Edition 2004/2005, Windows 2000; Linux-compatible (Xfree86 source available)

High Performance 3D

Up to 4 pixels per clock rendering Microsoft* DirectX* 9 Hardware Acceleration Features: Pixel Shader 2.0 Volumetric Textures Shadow Maps Slope Scale Depth Bias Two-Sided Stencil Microsoft* DirectX* 9 Vertex Shader 3.0 and Transform and Lighting supported in software through highly optimized Processor Specific Geometry Pipeline (PSGP) Texture Decompression for DirectX* and OpenGL* OpenGL* 1.4 support plus ARB_vertex_buffer and EXT_shadow_funcs extensions and TexEnv shader caching

I think the netbook stuf wil be comin later..we're going to probably have to make some netbook-specific UI to compensate for the resolution equirements.

The 3D required for the cloth-map only mode should be fairly minimal, and most netbooks have DX9.0c support (even if some work is done in software).  Netbook gaming is not unheard of, though certainly not common.  Making the game specifically with netbooks in mind should clear up any incompatibility issues.  Expectations of performance, however, should be fairly modest.

Well, that's kinda disappointing, especiallly since Brad has been doing the media circuit claiming to be able to run Elemental on a low end netbooks.

"When the game comes out you will be able to play it on a netbook," he said at one point, "And I don't mean a good netbook. I mean a crappy netbook."

Source

Misquote, or am I missing something?

The idea that Brad mentioned was cloth-map only on netbooks.  Which really shouldn't be a problem.  Yeah, performance would be of modest expectations at best, but it should still be playable.

We'll just have to wait and see what happens.  It sounds like netbook support is planned in some fashion, its just a matter of waiting for it to happen.  Was hoping to test on it now, but I can wait.

I'm curious.  What are the most recent games that support 800x600?  Looking around, it doesn't look like too many games released recently (if any) support a resolution so low.