For some folks, (like my wife and many of her friends), the netbook is the perfect computer. It's light enough to be taken anywhere and powerful enough to fulfi

For some folks, (like my wife and many of her friends), the netbook is the perfect computer. It's light enough to be taken anywhere and powerful enough to fulfill the daily tasks for the casual user. For her, a touch typist, the keyboard is infinitely more useful than a touch screen on a tablet. With a extra 1GB of DRAM, Windows 7 runs well enough that she can use it for almost all her personal needs sans the very few rare tasks, (encoding media or database reporting), that may require the horsepower of my home workstation. With the new hardware in the pipeline, I believe there is still a long life in the netbook model to create a very portable computer with a real keyboard that people will find useful and compelling. I'll probably wouldn't be using it as the main development system, but I don't see a problem having a high battery life, Linux/Windows machine that's easy to lug around. For the creator in me, tablets don't cut it.