This makes no sense to me, it must be some kind of joke I don't get. I'm referring to the "you can't write a novel on it."

(a) people wrote novels for some time without computers, and you can't write a novel on a netbook? I guess you can write a novel on just about anything.

(b) Someone later says that you don't need fancy stuff like spellcheck. What netbook is it that doesn't have spellcheck?

I was an editor for many years, and I could have done all the stuff I normally did as an editor on my netbook.

I suppose everyone has amnesia; they don't remember the many years in which you paid extra for small computers, and yet people did buy them -- I had a Dell Latitude, for example (and still do, but I never use it now, because my Asus 1000h runs so much cooler and better). Then someone actually started selling small for cheap! Of course people bought them.

How many people have written novels on their N800s and N810s, by the way? I bet a lot more people have worked on their novels on netbooks. I don't recall one single person here in the messages ever mentioning working on their novel on a Nokia tablet. Isn't that odd... If I'm wrong, please point the message out to me!