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wow, you are so gullible

Mar 10, 09 - 09:20 am Comment from: Fergman

It will be beautiful! Wait and see. It will also be snappy.

Mar 10, 09 - 09:21 am Comment from: jtc

How about a rumor that APPLE stock is going to jump to 150? I'm getting sick of this down selling stock manipulation BS.. and seriously.. enough with the mac netbook... I doubt its going to happen.. they will just make a tablet or wont even do that... since they already have the ipod Touch

its simple just make an iphone the size of an 8x10 piece of paper. that is your netbook!

You would just use it like an iphone, but now you don't have to squint or hold it close to your face. You'll also be able to watch your vidoes in a more realistic way

And if they do, it's NOT going to be the same $599 price as the iPhone.

WAsn't just a week ago or so MDN was saying these calls for an Apple netbook is idiotic and Apple would never do something as stupid as this because they had the perfect line up of notebooks?

Where is the take by MDN now?

Read this message quick, it will be removed by MDN soon.

A 10 inch tablet would be great.

Apple can go down one of two roads:

1) A netbook with an intel atom processor running OSX. It's been shown to be possible and OSX supposedly runs well on the atom.

2) A netbook with an ARM processor running the iPhone OS.

I'd rather have option 1, but it'll probably be option 2...

So, how soon before someone declares that Steve being on medical leave is the main reason why Apple would suddenly be moving forward with something like this?

Mar 10, 09 - 10:03 am Comment from: iSteve

I can just see Jobs' keynote now. He'll start off by listing the appeal of netbooks (low cost, compact size) but then show some top examples (ugly). Then he'll introduce Apple's entry in the segment.

It will be at the top of the segment price wise - say $699 if others peak at $599. It will upend the market and pull the rug out from under the one growth area the box assemblers have.

Remember the iPhone/iPod touch are a great netbook already. But you need a computer to go with it. Apple could use a stand alone product in this category. Millions who have crappy $699 boxes will rejoice and become first time Mac users.

If this is a 10 inch screen, touch driven "netbook" I expect it will be roughly 6.25 x 8.25 inches. (10" diagonal screen.)
If about 0.5" thick, it could still have a slider-phone like keyboard.

A little too big to fit in a jacket pocket.

I would expect SSD (64 Gb?), a 10 Mpixel camera, WiFi, Bluetooth and 3g? Minidisplay port, SD card slot, and that new Apple patent rechargeable battery ssystem recently discussed.

Steve Jobs is great. That said, his medical leave is a great time for the company to grow past its visionary founder. Apple needs to continue to innovate products that the market wants. Teh market is screaming for netbooks. Apple has done an excellent job of addressing market needs. I just hope Steve's comment about netbooks does not become Apple's official position.

netbook? why not a tablet? At least that way I don't have to buy a Kindle and I get netbook power. And the full sceen video playback on that bad boy would be nice too.

Mar 10, 09 - 10:16 am Comment from: since1985

get it right. not "third-generation" iPhone, but iPhone 3G.

"Apple's third-generation iPhone"

These guys are idiots. They don't even know that the 3G in iPhone stands for the network, not third-generation.

@since1985

Great minds think alike.

Mar 10, 09 - 10:29 am Comment from: breeze

Did anyone really think that Jabs would say: Yeah we're working on one, just be patient???

When asked about a video iPod, didn't he also say something like: people don't want to watch video on an ipod before Apple made a video capable iPod.

Here's an old school saying, which is an Apple MO:

It's for us to know and you to find out....

Mar 10, 09 - 10:31 am Comment from: Haiku

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Take the wonderful white Macbook, shrink it to 10 inches, and take the form factor of the Air...in other words, a 10 inch Air with yes, colors that match the iPod nano. Keep the camera inside, and announce iChat for Windows and put Skype to shame. Offer a $59 external Superdrive and give it enough ooomph to run like the existing Macbook. Price it a $649 and sell the heck out of 'em.
Also, while reinforcing the hinge issue, give it a little handle like the old ones. No pivoting screen.

Mar 10, 09 - 10:56 am Comment from: SirROM

Uh, people who claim that Apple is “moving past” the obstacles Steve Jobs has put in place at Apple are not too bright. It was clear in the announcement that Steve “would still be involved in strategic decisions” at Apple. How would the decision to make their version of a netbook or tablet somehow be an end run around Steve? If it happens, it will be because Steve wants it to happen.

“nuf said

Mar 10, 09 - 11:02 am Comment from: breeze

this thing has been on the drawing board and in development for a long time - Jobs bypassed ? Only an idiot would say so...

Remember, Steve said that no one would want a small video screen and that music on a iPod made sense while movies on and iPod did not. Netbook is coming...

what flippin annoys me is the fact people are calling this a netbook, just because it has a ten inch screen!! it will NOT be priced at a low price, it will NOT be priced like other netbooks. also, it is more likely this is a tablet, after many patents have seen of apple working out the idea of a tablet. even if it is notebook with a ten inch screen, it will not 1.2Gh atoms inside it, it will be a relative strong computer. please, people wise up. and most important of all!!! that is IF IF IF this is true, which is still impossible to call, even if some of the sources seem secure/reliable

Mar 10, 09 - 11:58 am Comment from: jtc

@eddy

If you have to squint at the iphone text... then you have some serious bad eye sight. Though my sight is 20/5 so I have no issue with seeing text like that from an arms length. But my friend had no problem holding it a foot from her face without her glasses on reading texts.

It'll have a 5" screen. That's two of the existing 3.5" screens put together, for a VGA 640x480 screen. It makes scaling the UI and the existing apps easy as pie, and it'll be inexpensive enough to actually sell for $400 to $500 depending upon built-in ram.

And, it folds. Did I mention it folds so it can fit in your pocket just like the current iPhone?

Squinting may be an exaggeration, if you have good eye sight. You know what i mean.

Jobs likes to brag that the iphone / ipod touch have the real internet on it. That is great, but it is limited because of how small the screen is.

Why wouldn't they make a small computer that isn't a iPod Touch?

I love small notebooks.

@ RandiZ

They were saying Apple doesn't need a me-too netbook like everyone else, and they are right. A product such as this would not be just like everyone else's netbook, even if they called it the iNetbook.

Mar 10, 09 - 04:04 pm Comment from: alansky

My guess is that Apple will eventually figure out how to make a high-quality $500 "netbook" but I wouldn't want to bet on how soon that might happen. For one thing, I'm not convinced that the demand for such a product is that great among average consumers. No matter how portable you make it, a laptop is still a laptop; and most people who want or need portability (on the Mac side, at least) already have a full-featured laptop. And we're also in the middle of a severe recession. So unless we're talking about professional road warriors, who are definitely a niche market, the whole notion doesn't quite add up to me.

Mar 10, 09 - 05:56 pm Comment from: MacLovin

Personally, I'd love a Mac Netbook. I'd use it for school, taking notes, etc. and use my MacBook that I have at home for internet browsing and writing up papers. Its not much fun to lug my MacBook around to every class every day for 8 hours. I would never buy any POS Winblows or Linsux netbook, but I'd definitely throw down $600 for a Mac Netbook.

A 10 inch iphone would be great

@alansky

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"For one thing, I'm not convinced that the demand for such a product is that great among average consumers. "

All the top selling computers on Amazon are netbooks with th exception of the macbook.

alansky said:
"no matter how portable you make it, a laptop is still a laptop; "

Students like myself need small laptops. I suppose it's different for someone who sits in an office all day and drives from point A to point B.