The number of commentators saying "Steve said netbooks are crap and Apple wouldn't do one, the Mac Book Air 11.6 is a netbook, Steve lied" is winding me up.

Firstly, Steve lies all the time when talking about upcoming or non-existent products, no big deal.

However, when Steve was talking about netbooks being crap, netbook were all 9 or 10 inch designs with tiny keyboards and barely usable track pads. Only relatively recently have companies started releasing 11 or 12 inch machines and describing them netbooks.

Calling an 11/12 inch machine a netbook is just silly, we used to have laptops that size and they were just laptops. Those machines aren't netbooks in an meaningful way, they are just smallish, cheap, slow laptops.