opinions re rumored mba update

[DVD9]

I, too, am underwhelmed by netbooks and would never, ever buy one, although I do have an iPad. The iPad, while being very good at a few things is far too limited to serve as a satisfactory substitute for a real computer.

Screen size is always a tradeoff between ease of viewing and portability. How much screen shrinkage a user is willing to live with will, of course, be governed by how often he has to use his computer in on-the-go situations. The old 12 inch Powerbook was very popular in its day, although I have had no first hand experience with it. I agree that anything smaller than 12 inches would be getting small indeed, by the standards of real computers anyway.

Has

Screen size has been a tradeoff. Nano technology eliminates the tradeoff, and compromise.

The problem is that Apple produces a nano gadget, but not a true nano engineered laptop. No one else does either.

Cell phones and gadgets are benefiting from the latest tech, laptops are not. The processor inside is the only nano technology. Everything else is from six years ago.
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