"Fruity toymaker??"

Netbooks are nice, but a little iphone spice on a micronized macbook would be a welcome jolt to to the category.

Netbooks are poor ebook readers, and the tiny trackpads and keyboards are not much fun long term. The Vaio P was innovative, but didn't address the core UI issues that Apple are so good with.

I'm OS agnostic, but I happen to think a 10" iphone-esque MID would be pretty cool and worth a hefty premium over a standard-issue netbook.

Plus Apple are likely to have first dibs on Intel's new Atom chipsets.

So yeah, I'm looking forward to this.

Was waiting for the bad play on words.....

Small Apple notebook = Applet?

I thought it was funny

First picture of this:

Next Apple moves will be Books and Games…
http://spidouz.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/next-apple-moves-will-be-books-and-games

Must have the full Mac OS X inside (not the limited OS X of iPhone and iPod touch) for full blown presentations using NATIVE Keynote and PowerPoint from VGA-out port.

We need thousands for our University.

If apple makes a crippled Netbook, only idiotic fanboys will buy it at a premium over Netbooks that will run Windows 7. Microsoft will win this battle. The commercial for a Netbook running Windows 7 that can do more than the Apple crippled Apple Netbook would be a huge success and make Apple look worse than Windows current add campaign.

"Whispers suggest Apple will attempt to market the device as a portable gadget for reading e-books, connecting to the Interwarble and watching films."

Did Apple say it would have the full version of OS X, and users would be able to install whatever they like?

Or is Apple going put a crippled, limited OS on the netbook, and only allow a few activities like reading e-books and connecting to the net?

Could this be a Ion implementation, or even a Nvidia Tegra product?

The iPhone uses an ARM and Apple's OS already runs on it so it might not be to far fetched for a device that can be a HD media and web browse with other light apps funning on the hardware. This is definely and advantage of Apple having control of hardware and the software in the segment.

Here comes the new apple iCrap!

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/04/18/new_imac_owners_see_radeon_hd_4850_related_lock_up_issue.html

i bet it will come in at a similar price to sonys netbooks (£800)

and sell to fanboys only (the ones that couldn't afford the macbook air)

what took Apple so long?