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Originally Posted by nilchak View Post
Oh Steve Jobs said the iPhone is the competitor to netbooks (or something to that effect) - since

Of course once he saw netbooks selling like crazy- then he said he has some interesting ideas in the netbook category (which then turned into the iTablet rumours eventually).

Anyways, this is not about an iPhone tablet vs a Booklet argument - and even I agree the Booklet is overpriced (but we will reevaluate that when the iTablet comes out again), but it is not underpowered - which you do agree.

Actually apart from the $60 monthly plan for 2 years bondage, I would say the booklet is a attractive up-market netbook for the discerning crowd. Its not as if all manufactureres have to make products to the lowest common denominator (Apple shines in this philosophy).
Good points.

As for the price, it's just that most Atom based netbooks are sub $500 and the only ones that comes to mind in booklet 3g's price range has a rather impressive feature, which is the Vaio P with its 1600x768 screen and even smaller than most netbooks (at the cost of having the trackpoint vs touchpad).

I don't know about the final street price.. but for a product that commands significantly higher price (msrp), the Booklet 3G seems (to me) that it's released near the end of the current generation of Atom and doesn't have that 'freshness' if it were released last year when the first Atoms were coming out.
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