A free round AND more likely than an $800 (£457+vat = £540)Macbook...I'll go for the beer thank you.

I'll be a piece of cake for Apple to release a netbook - all they just need to do is rebrand (and slightly rebuild) an Asus EEE (cos all Macbooks are made by Asus anyway) and bundle said netbook with OSX = profit!

... no USD800 MacNetBook.

Looks like the rest of the market will have to grow without Apple ...

"Just look at the wheelbarrow full of pale Iphone imitations currently flooding the market. I can't think of a single phone builder which hasn't either released, or announced the release, of an Iphone wannabe, complete with large touch screen, multi finger gesturing and motion / proximity sensing."

Now I love Apple just as much as the next guy and I'm ready to snatch up one of these new MacBooks no matter the price. As far as everyone copying the iPhone, yes there are a lot of look-a-like copycats BUT the iPhone also got its looks from the LG Prada which came out months before the iPhone. Let's not forget that many of the things Apple has are just things that they've taken from someone else and just made them 100x's better...

I think it will be a bit trickier for Apple this time. If they do a very small netbook there will be complaint about "unusable keyboard" and too high cost compared to other netbooks. If they just shrink the MacBook by cutting off the unused 10 mm around the screen and keyboard and throw out the DVD to make it thinner and lighter there will be complaints it is not even smaller and lighter. And if they go really innovative with a "tablet PC", like a three times as large screen as the iPhone there will be complaints that it has no real keyboard. And with the recent "netbook" boom, I would be a bit nervous about releasing a tabled PC.

But this is Apple, I can't even guess what they will come up with, but I'm sure it will be cool :-)

You can't yet put 60GB of flash into an $800 device without losing money on every sale. 6GB, maybe.

A $800 Macbook as described ... you're basically just asking for them slash the price of the Air in half. Good luck with that wish.

Ladies and gentlemen I give you steve jobs "audience is quiet there is no clapping they are just in total awe, I'm wondering what is going on here.
Everyone is speechless, he walks past a few people and shakes their hands, 1 women gets a cuddle from him, and faints, no it wasn't Steve job's awesomeness that did it. apparently billionaires dont shower much, and he just sprayed deodorant over the top, and this makes one terrible concoction that rivals serin gas. Two well tanned men in suits picks her up and takes her away, she screams whats going on where are you taking me, the rest of the crowd is oblivious they are just focused on Steve. He is now holding his hands up in a Y, The crowd starts cheering, I can see him watching in his peripheral vision to see if the lady is out, she is, the crowd is clapping wooing, whistling, they cant contain themselves.
he drops his hands and the people instantly stop and sit down, its like he is controlling them.... wait a minute...... they are robots, run by apple mac and intel processors. they are at his control, I didnt realize they were dead quiet until he did some movments, this all makes sense to me know, its all unfloding. 

All these years when someone walks down the road with a apple product they always look spaced out, in their own world if you will. its all a ploy, the robots are placed strategically into society only to fuel Steve's hunger for cash and world domination.you never see a apple user look bad, they always look as intended, you never see a homeless person with a nano, you never see a person on the dole with baggy track pants with a ipod touch, it all makes sense I'm thinking to myself. 

" I'm trying to contain it in myself remember I am here for 2 more days at this conference, If I reveal I know I may disappear like that lady" I start to freak out, sweating I want to get out of there and reveal what I have found. I started thinking how could I have not seen this earlier, All those times I saw a person using/wearing a fruit themed product I always wondered why they liked / defended to the death in situations where their beloved product was being subjected to criticism, that is because they were all robots. Of course, thats why you could never win the argument, they had interlect and AI they were programed to defend the products at all costs. 
So these keynotes are just maintenance windows, when they sit in the chair, a little plug that no one can see is inserted , and they are updated with the latest products, and also the latest "thing that PC owners attack the mac user about their products", and also uploaded is the rebuttal, the fix for that criticism, its been 3 hours and Steve finished, I applaud him as everyone else does, I am a press representitve for a IT mag, so I pretend im interested, underneath Im praying that the rexona doesnt let me down, im freaking out to the max, my heart pounding, im scared, that these bots have IR sensors, and can see my heart rate, and how hot i am. I gotta get out of here. I need some help I scan the room for people I know, wait "is that?" I ask myself, I shake my head to se if im alive still, Its Charlie Demerjan sitting with the robots, im in disbelief and then it clicks, Of course thats true its so clear to me now, he is so anti Microsoft that this is the reason, its not even his fault he hates them, hes just programmed that way. I bet if I found a way to reprogram him, or to make him receptive, I bet he could even like Microsoft, maybe even love Microsoft!




(tune in next week for part 2 of a 3 part series, and find out if Stewart saves the day,reverts Charlie to a receptive robot. and reveals Steves Ultimate plan) and if there is even a hot female character in the story. 

And this is just the beginning.

If I could bet 50 bucks on a new net book from apple based on ARM and tegra from nVidia, well I would.
Charlie, do you accept the bet? :)