My wife is after a Netbook to cart around with her and after some looking round there are couple of contenders that stand out to me.
The first is the Gateway LT3105/LT3106 here:
http://nz.gateway.com/products/series/ltseries.html
Athlon 64 is quite a bit faster than the Atom, decentish battery life (5 hours), light (1.2kg). But also has no 3G, and no 802.11n
The other contender is the HP 5101:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/321957-321957-64295-3841267-3955550-3973865.html
Unfortunately I cannot find one with a 6 cell battery (9 hour), they all come with 4 cell (3.5-4 hour). And integrated 3G seems to add quite a bit to the price for something which will only be used if we go away for weekends.
I might be overlooking something. For what it's worth she's vetoed the Asus EeePCs as being 'ugly' and complaining about their trackpads. Otherwise they're certainly specced the best for the money.