Just at Walmart tonight, I saw an HP Laptop with a 13 inch screen and no CD/DVD drive. The case and LCD are made of aluminum and it's quite attractive, with Windows 7 Home premium at $489. I guess you could say that it was a large screen net book. I'm not giving up my full sized XP notebook with 2 DVD/CDRW drives any time soon though, because it still works quite well, thanks. If I was looking for a new notebook or Netbook, this is likely the direction I'd go in.

Do what I did, buy some lard (pig fat is very close to human fat) and coat the screen good. Let it sit for maybe twenty minutes in a warm and then wipe it off with a dry, soft lint free cloth.

You screen will be evenly pre-coated and all your worries over greasy LCD screens just go away.

Or if you wish to have aroma computing, fry some bacon and use the drippings. But be aware that attracts dogs and rednecks.

Touchscreens are great, they're easier to use, but it doesn't matter how often we wash our hands, they get greasy. This is a good thing, it shows us we are not dead, but looks bad on screen.
I personally make a huge efford to not touch LCD screens, as they get greasy so easily and they are so hard to get spotless clean.
Unless they come up with a grease repellant technology, I guess won't buy touchscreen monitors.

The Vole has got it the wrong way up. Ballmer put multi-touch on Windows for PCs (which is not needed), and has no multi-touch on Windows Mobile for phones, which is desperately needed. Yes, I know some Taiwanese handset makers managed to bolt on multi-touch to the front screen of Windows Mobile, but it doesn't work at an OS level.

So the handset buying public have deserted Windows Mobile, as have software developers, because it doesn't have multi-touch. Everyone's now buying Android and iPhone instead, which both have multi-touch throughout.

It's kind of bizarre that Microsoft assigned scores of software engineers to get multi-touch working on Windows 7 desktops, while leaving Windows Mobile to neglect and ruin.

I failed to mention I will NEVER but a laptop with a non-removable battery either. The risk of something going wrong and staring a fire is way to high and I wish the U.S. government would a law forbidding it. Oem profits over safety is not a good idea.True the risk of fire is not great but there have been 2 times when something weird happened over the years and being able to unplug the ac adapter and pull the battery saved my laptop and my pocket book.

I have a netbook and love it. I read ebooks Internet and other junk, but I will never spend more than $350. for one.
My notebook must be powerful, lots of ram AND a cd-dvd burner. How thin it it is not very important. Notebooks are getting thinner by nature anyway. When I see a $2,000 1.6 2gb ram and no cd drive I have to laugh. Why spend a small fortune for something a little more powerful than a netbook? The big point is not if companys are making them but is if people are buying them.
Im sure some will but I never will.
I think only the idea of thin (and big profits for the oem) is in.

People today want a PC that's to live in a secure location (their home) and basically do low power functions like file serving and online banking. They want low power and low cost. Netbooks fit that model so now it's time to take that concept to the PC and while keeping in mind, cheaper is better. Low initial cost and low operating costs is where it's at. Computers should be a commodity at this point, not an investment.