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While I would love to see Apple enter this market, it simply isn't in line with their product history. Apple demands a strong margin in order to enter a product category, and there simply isn't margin in the netbook business. Netbooks are profitable via volume - much as Wal-Mart margins are slim, but they do enough volume to make the venture worthwhile. Furthermore, Apple tries to maintain a solid brand image by selling products with a decent amount of power (hence all the spec bumps on their products), and that isn't easy to do at $500. Entering this product category could hurt their brand image, which would be extremely costly.

Though the device would probably be made well, Apple simply would not release a sub $500 product in this space - they would prefer to have the consumer buying another MacBook as a second computer.

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