Won't happen. Netbooks are supposed to be small, CHEAP, laptops. Apple would go the small route, but never cheap. Doesn't fit their image. Might cause preexisting Mac owners to say "Wait a minute, why did I spend so much on my *book?" and that's bad for sales.
-facepalm- Dude, do you really think that the OSX on the iPhone is actually OSX? Do you also believe that Windows Mobile is ACTUALLY a slimmed down Windows Kernel??????? What has the world come to!?!?
Do you seriously think the iPhone is the apple experience? So, you want an iPhone with a 10-inch screen, and a keyboard? Oh great, AOE3 will be fun on that! (sarcasm)
@vvtopkarv: Jailbreak an iPhone or iPod Touch and you'll see that it IS a slimmed-down version of Mac OS X (compiled for ARM11 processors) that runs on these devices. You're right that Windows and Windows Mobile share nothing, but Mac OS X and the iPhone are a lot closer than you think.
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Apple ported the OSX kernal to run on a way-underpowered iPhone. who's to say they won't do something similar for a netbook
Won't happen. Netbooks are supposed to be small, CHEAP, laptops. Apple would go the small route, but never cheap. Doesn't fit their image. Might cause preexisting Mac owners to say "Wait a minute, why did I spend so much on my *book?" and that's bad for sales.
-facepalm-
Dude, do you really think that the OSX on the iPhone is actually OSX? Do you also believe that Windows Mobile is ACTUALLY a slimmed down Windows Kernel??????? What has the world come to!?!?
i realize that the iPhone isn't a full featured version of OSX, i'm just saying that Apple can bring the "Apple Experience" to an underpowered machine
Do you seriously think the iPhone is the apple experience? So, you want an iPhone with a 10-inch screen, and a keyboard? Oh great, AOE3 will be fun on that! (sarcasm)
@vvtopkarv: Jailbreak an iPhone or iPod Touch and you'll see that it IS a slimmed-down version of Mac OS X (compiled for ARM11 processors) that runs on these devices. You're right that Windows and Windows Mobile share nothing, but Mac OS X and the iPhone are a lot closer than you think.