We recently demonstrated that it is possible to run Starcraft 2 on a netbook, albeit at a poor framerate.  Blizzard has indicated the recommended the minimum specs for the sc2 beta as being: Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1/Windows 7 2.2 Ghz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processor 1 GB system RAM/1.5 GB for Vista and Windows 7 128 MB NVidia GeForce 6600 GT/ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card 1024... more.

Installing Starcraft 2 to a netbook is a fairly straightforward process.  For our test run we installed to an Asus eee 1000h with 2gb of ram, and a 1.6ghz first generation atom processor.  Modern notebooks are a bit faster, and I imagine will run the beta significantly better than our tests did. We found the beta to be barely playable, getting an average of 10 fps on our test system, though r... more.