appleinsider.com - 12/7/2008
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Faced with the perfect storm of a bleak market and a boom in ultra-budget portables, Apple is believed by some to be readying its own take on the netbook for the first half of 2009.
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Looking for improved business models for the personal
computer business, Apple CEO Steve Jobs often used to...
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TechBlog —
... - This Trojan can infect PCs or Macs, and pollute the DNS on a network for any device connected to it. • Economy, opportunity seen leading to $599 Apple netbook - Pure speculation, albeit interesting, from an analyst. • ...
Will Apple Come Out With A Netbook?
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP —
... to heart Jobs’ assertion that $500 systems are typically “junk” and believes that Apple will price the system at $599. The figure would be just low enough to draw customers who would pass over the plastic MacBook but high enough to avoid the risk Apple’s co-founder perceives in dropping the price particularly low.
OK. How about a $599 Apple netbook? Will there be any takers?
Comments welcome.
Source. ...
Steve Jobs isn’t interested in Netbooks - just ask him
Apple Gazette —
... If you can make it through this very long winded article on Apple Insider, what you’ll find is that Gottheil is certain that Apple is going to release a $599 netbook sometime in the first half of next year. ...
Belkin Confirms It Willl Bypass Macworld Expo
Cult of Mac —
... On Friday, Belkin was named along with Creative Labs and Seagate who had dropped exhibit plans for Macworld, according to AppleInsider. ...
Apple's call to ARM
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Since we know OS X already works with the ARM architecture, it raises the question: What will this device be, a netbook or a tablet? Analyst Ezra Gottheil from Technology Business Research says Apple can't afford to ignore consumer clamor for dropping prices, and expects Apple to release a $600 netbook in the first half of next year. We'll see. ...
‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Dec. 8
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... “Economy, opportunity seen leading to $599 Apple netbook: Faced with the perfect storm of a bleak market and a boom in ultra-budget portables, Apple is believed by some to be readying its own take on the netbook for the first half of 2009.”—AppleInsider ...
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