I Don’t Want a Tablet
An important semantic clarification from The Macalope:
Netbooks are simply cheap little laptops.
I’m happy that someone has said it because this surely is the point. A netbook hacked to run OS X runs real Mac software. An iTouch Tablet or whatever it is that Apple fans are positive that the company will soon release will be amazing for movies, maps, games – anything that can take advantage of a larger screen. But a great majority of iPhone software is what one might call ‘list based.’ Expand these apps across a wider screen and what was proportional and focused starts to look ridiculous. Moreover, if your mobile work involves editing or producing a significant quantity of text then a keyboardless tablet will be of no help to you.
A thin, light, aluminum MacBook Mini. I have 750$ for that.
