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Netbooks are clearly intended for light use and as a second machine for e-mail, Net surfing, and light office tasks. That’s due mainly to the limited power offered by the underlying hardware and the tiny screens to some extent. But it looks like netbooks are about to get a whole lot more powerful if a netbook on display in Japan is to become the norm.

The Japanese tech site Akiba PC Hotline has images of a new netbook from a company called Shenzhen Weibu Electronics. The specs of the machine can be seen in the image below:

As you can see, the Atom is a dual core 330 and has been married with Nvidia’s Ion 9400M graphics solution. Up until now such a configuration has only been seen in nettops and not netbooks.

The good news is you are clearly getting a much more powerful machine, but the power requirements will increase meaning attaining the 9 hour battery life some single core netbooks manage today isn’t going to happen. I’m betting most people may be able to put up with that in return for a faster machine though.

The cost of the Shenzhen netbook works out to roughly $527. The release date is unknown.

Read more at CNET