There has been lots of speculation on whether or not Apple will join the netbook market. This would be wise for several reasons:
The success of the App store could be applied to netbooks
MobleMe takes care of store issues for small hard drives
Apple needs to appeal more to low budget consumers especially in this current economic climate
This may cannibalize the Macbook's dominance in the education market but this may be necessary as the economy shrinks and credit is harder to obtain.
Additionally, any technical majors would have to use a Macbook Pro or Macbook anyway since netbooks are not powerful enough to run advance software especially with photos, music, or movies.
Apple could also create a netbook with a design concept similar to the HP Pavilion tx2500z. This would be expensive and unlikely but a small netbook with features of a tablet would be innovative enough to suit Apple's mantra. Perhaps a $500 iNetbook and a $900 iTabletbook? These would most likely have 1.6 Ghz Atom processors, 1 GB of ram, and 32 GB of flash memory.
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