> I wouldn't call that "thing" a netbook, but a small laptop. The iBook was about the same size and nobody called it a "netbook".

I agree. I'm surprised Jeff missed the obvious rhetorical reply: 'Netbooks aren't lame laptops; laptops are lame netbooks.'

(And then one would go on to enumerate the advantages of size, battery-life, etc. and give the little mini-history of computer trends.)