I understand that but i was only being lightly (jokingly) condescendingly patronizing toward the (commercial) product makers who made their own "category up" (just like despite the software, some netbooks push the size limit that make them seem like small laptops with not as much horse power) form two "existing ones". though i knew already, through my comment i stand corrected and i guess since "you posed the question", you also answered it for yourself too...

at any rate, I was really piggy backing off of yodude's definition of a smartbook which sounded close to that of the tables and was really simply just stating that LIKE the tablets ( given all the mobile functionality and intuitive resources ) this product seems to have poor PR or bad advertising, all jokes aside it looks nice but the commercial was a bit cookie cut for a "new tech" product IMO, despite it all I'm glad to see this .

Hehe. I find it hard to thumb-type on my N810, let alone trying to do it on something like the generic businesswomen has in her hands.

Tim

The success of the ARM-architecture means there will be more users and developers writing, porting and optimizing code leading to more users etc.

There's the economies of scale, more competitive prices, more choices, with some vendors offering better support.

As a pleasant side effect it helps erode the wintel (ms/x86) duopoly which I can't see to be a negative development for the ARM/Linux/tablet platform either as many still rely on certain proprietary packages or plugins to be ported by commercial vendors (Flash, Skype).

As the Linux "desktop" environments and their toolkits evolve it should become ever easier to adapt the applications for finger or stylus UIs and smaller screens.

Something like that, or alternatively "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger"...

Well, everything I've seen says that the smartbooks are what the netbooks were supposed to be in the first place, before they morphed into something more or less resembling a sub-notebook. Current day netbooks aren't truly netbooks. At least not according to the original vision. Smartbooks are trying to correct that failing. And that's not to say that netbooks should die, as they fill their own little niche. But rather that smartbooks will finally fill the niche originally intended to be filled by netbooks.