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However, if no carrier picks it...[/QUOTE]

Well, in the USA AT&T has picked up the Booklet with a subsidized price of @299 with contract for 2 years.

By the blog reactions, it doesn't seem very exciting as most people are unaware of the features.
Of course if this was an Apple with an aluminium body the blog world would have gone ga-ga.

Anyone know if it runs Maemo yet? or when a convertible-tablet-netbook format version will be out?

@nilchak: yes, i would go gaga over it
because...
1. it'll run osx.
2. apple wouldn't release an 'underpowered' netbook as they've said in the past..
3. it'll probably come with nifty multitouch touchpad too.

Yeah, but you already have all that in the current packages (since Apple wont release "underpowered" [till the market economics says its actually overpowering ] netbook ) from Apple, so my point was that Apple fanatics would go ga-ga just over that Aluminium body and herald it as something revolutionary (remember than one casting body that Apple brought out with no other enhancements nearly) ?

I will give credence where it is due (like all of Apple's innovations in software and hardware), but will not jump up and down over a design which takes away from features (one casting body design took away the replaceable battery).

And come-on the Booklet is a netbook - so its not underpowered in ITS category.

I agree that it's not underpowered. It's problem is that it's overpriced. You can purchase the same functionality for far less than the unsubsidized price of $599. You can then add subsidized USB 3G (if you can't just tether) which will allow you to use a single data plan for all your computers.

It's nothing special and that's disappointing.

@nilchak: as long as you can hack OSX to run on it, I will pony up the admission fee

I agree that currently it's not underpowered in its category, but I was talking about what steve jobs (or someone from apple) said in the past that they didn't think the platform can give good enough performance (or something to that effect). Probably because of all the hardware gfx acceleration that the osx needs.

I also think that the (netbook) category is in need of a performance step up since it's been in that level for.. what.. 2 years now? At least a step up in the gpu like Nvidia's ION is doing.

And doesn't have a decent vendor supported OS.

I'd pay the price they're asking, if it ran, say, a netbook optimized version of Maemo.

You'll be happy to know that uber-cool Steve Jobs agrees with unter-cool Michael Dell.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...ur_savior.html

@DaveP1:
Actually I've been using a 'hackintosh' netbook for travelling (MSI Wind: 10" lcd, atom 1.6ghz, 2gb ram) and it's sufficient for most daily tasks (mail, browsing, IM, irc, ssh, vnc, rdp, bit of online poker, etc... most of those running at the same time.) so although I would never say 'no' to more horsepower, I've found the Atom platform adequate and quite suitable (dimension+weight) for travelling.

It would be awesome if my n900 came the same day that i pick up my Booklet on October 22.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31012_7...-10355804.html