Technology changes 'outstrip' netbooks

This article does not describe technology advances as problem against netbooks. Rather, we finally have the perfect confluence of technologies to give a sizable percentage of computer users what they've been wanting for years, and that is a small, lightweight, yet powerful and fully-capable miniature laptop with a decent keyboard, high-speed wireless, and a sharp bright screen, all for a reasonable price. Add Linux and you have a machine that can do anything a full-sized desktop can do, except for high-end gaming, CAD, and other tasks that don't make sense on a small box anyway.

Small form-factor PCs like the Toshiba Libretto have always been way overpriced. Now with Linux on netbooks we can have it all. It's Microsoft that hates them and is trying to kill them with artificial restrictions, and shame on the gutless hardware vendors that don't see the bright wide highway out of Sauron's realm. Nobody wants an Internet dumb terminal, that's a fantasy of hardware vendors who still afeard of Linux, and a myth propagated by Microsoft to justify the fat price tag of crippled Windoze netbooks that are good for nothing.

For good or ill, Google will redefine the netbook in its image in 2010.