[citation][nom]stardude82[/nom]How much of the supposed price drop will be lower hardware costs versus corner cutting (i.e. plastic enclosures, lower quality monitors, tempered glass instead of Gorilla, and mechanical hard drives)?[/citation]
How can anyone possibly answer this, since no devices have been unveiled just yet?
If you're not aware how hard these APUs trounce Intel's offerings across the board for gaming, video performance, and general usage, please go through this site page by page until you're up to speed.
It wouldn't be surprising to see some excellent $300 offerings from Trinity, and some nicer $500 ones as well. At $750 or so, the Intelbooks wouldn't have a prayer, and at the same price ($1000-ish) there would be simply no reason to choose an Intelbook at all.
For light-duty browsing and entertainment, AMD chips are perfect, and the pricing and competition alone will help force down Intel pricing for fanatics like you (Stardude82) who aren't any good at math yet, but still might possibly know what "lower pricing" would mean across the board.