Of course, I’ll wait till 1st Quarter 2010 to see what the Mac tablet looks like, but I really don’t like the idea of typing on glass, with the keyboard taking up half the glass screen. But if Apple’s tablet is anything like what’s being predicted on rumor sites, I’ll get a Win 7 netbook ahead of some tablet that forces me to type on a glass screen. Seriously, I cannot see myself writing for hours, on work documents, typing on a tablet. Sure, that’s not the purpose of a tablet. But there is a need for a highly portable notebook that is sufficiently powerful to run Office software. The PC World has that, but Apple refuses to meet those needs of their users.

Apple does not take its role as monopolizer of OSX seriously. Because they’re the only ones that make OSX hardware, they need to meet the broad needs of their users. They can’t say, if it’s not going to make us mountains of money, then we won’t do it. Where does that leave people like me who need an ultra portable netbook for serious office work that I need to take when travelling.

If Win7 is as good as they say it is, I’m getting a Win7 netbook once it comes out.

I’m an Apple fanboy — but I do need a netbook-sized computer.

With Dropbox software on the Win7 netbook, it would seamlessly integrate with my Mac’s.

non trivial? time consuming? … ummm, no.

but hell fucking yeah i’d take a free copy of windows 7. for all those times when some stupid proprietary microsoft baloney comes around that forces people to use windows and there’s no work-around in OS X, i’d be covered.

Really? Non-trivial? With Boot Camp, installing Windows is incredibly easy. The Windows installer shouldn’t be that hard (XP was fairly trivial, and I’m assuming it should be just as if not more simple in Vista & 7). Finding drivers for a Mac is a breeze since Boot Camp burns a driver CD with every driver you need, and offers a full installation program to set everything up for you.

If anything, learning to use another OS is the most non-trivial, and with the proliferation of Windows in every corner of business, I think it’d be awefully hard to find a computer user who hasn’t used Windows before.

The reason is simple; to take a Macenstein-centric viewpoint (read Apple fanboy) of this, Mac users are often willing to try things out on their computer. Almost every Mac user becomes somewhat of a Mac fanatic, so every chance they get to experiment with their computer (even if it means delving into the black art that is Windows) is worth it. Most Windows users tend to just be users, and are very content staying inside of the box. I’d bet a poll of the number of Mac users who stay with Safari or experiment with other browsers vs. the number of Windows users who stay with IE or experiment with other browsers would confirm this.