cloud computing, any one?

Notebook - not a note book. It's a laptop, and IDK why it's not called a laptop.

Netbook - not a book, or a net book. Netbook is more like a description of the Amazon reader thing.

Someone should spend this weekend working out a new word for small-laptop, it could just make you a fortune.

My suggestions are:
minibook, netlap, nettop, mininet, portanet, lapnet, minilap, cybernet, minicyber, cybermini, micronet...

I think that any of those could catch, and maybe some of them already exist ;-)

Thanks for the link.

Don't mean to be picky but there's some errata:

- We weren't aware they were dying but maybe they are and it's not for us to say.
- It's a tradmeark, not a copyright.
- Dell's men in grey suits are actually women
- The sworn statement was 2006, not 2005
- The mark will be unregisterable if freed from Psion. Dell are either being a white knight or want to avoid being sued for using the term themselves (since the rest of the community is)

Cheers for spreading the word,

Save the Netbooks

Re-reading my earlier comment, I see I was sharper than is appropriate, or do I mean blunter. This is quite an interesting story, what are we to call the things that we'll be passing on to the kids this time next year, and good work. Thank you. I mean it's not like I pay for your news (should I????)

Why does the story say "copyrighted" when it's about a trademark? It's bad enough that the audience confuses copyright, trademark, patent, and rights in musical performance, but we don't want the Fourth Estate muddling us further. And, while I am going on, "gloabal"?

And it isn't like Dell not to file trademarks itself. A trademark search costing £35-£50 would of sufficed and the marketing whiz-kids could of come up with something better than netbook, ULCPC or sub-notebook.

If Dell is going to try and get the Netbook trademark removed then can they please take the patent away from Apple for multi-touch?