If Intel believed Netbooks would cannibalize standard laptops they wouldn't have come out with the Atom.

Whether you call it “cannibalization” or not, the numbers are still pretty clear: even as netbooks sales continue to grow, those of all other categories of PCs continue to decline. Doesn’t matter if you try to interpret those as “as well as” rather than “instead of” sales, the fact remains that overall margins for PCs, and for the software that runs on them, is going down. That’s the reality.

It is not paranoia if the netbooks are out to get you. If netbooks growth rate is twice the rate of growth of notebooks, netbooks will get you sooner or later, and they will run GNU/Linux or force M$ to pay OEMs to install "7".

Moore's Law and corollaries have overtaken the Wintel monopoly. Happy Christmas...