Rumors Hot Up About Apple Netbook
Yesterday the new rumors about Apple’s supposed touchscreen netbook were the talk of the town.
Reports that Taiwanese company, Wintek, would be supplying touchscreen panels to Quanta computer (who would be responsible for manufacturing the Cupertino company’s newest laptop), hit the wire early yesterday morning and people have been speculating ever since with little tidbits are trickling through from supposed Apple sources.
Citing people “close to the situation” CNN says two sources told Dow Jones Newswires that, while the specifications and functions are still being evaluated, Apple is indeed working with Taiwan's Wintek and Quanta Computer. The two also revealed that these netbooks are likely to be between 9.7-inch and 10-inch models.
Yesterday’s report was something an awful lot of people took with a grain of salt. Sure it might be credible information, but it could just as easily be a lot of hot air over nothing. With Dow Jones jumping on the bandwagon it’s definitely going to kick the rumor mill into gear.
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People might be more interested if it were a touchscreen tablet or something instead of a standard netbook - something akin to an iPod Touch with a 8.9" screen maybe.
As it's Apple their netbook should it come to exist will look glorious in a unibody and glass body but will command such a premium only the stupid or the fashionistas (i.e. the stupid) will pay for one.
I don't think we'll see an Apple netbook because, to translate Steve Jobs, they don't know how to make a computer at a realistic price. Through marketing they can sell their lifestyle and their hardware at their exorbitant premium, but the Macbook Air is already their ultra-portable product, so a netbook will either confuse their product offering or take away from Macbook Air sales.
Although the thougth of an Ion-powered 8.9" iPod Touch-esque device is actually pretty sweet...could go for one of them actually.
Sounds like a chance for someone to finally put a FULL STABLE operating system on a small machine and face it "Netbook's" are already way overpriced for what they are anyway, The same people who buy a "laptop" just because its small are probably going to love the idea of a well designed one, Mac OS is almost the perfect operating system to run on a "laptop" of that size.