>>>>The implication there is just that it wasn't designed for what you want to use it for :-}
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>>>Seriously, what use is it really designed for? Is it a glorified netbook?
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>>Can you write on a netbook? Can a netbook act as an e-reader?
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>When it comes to writing on a netbook - it depends on the netbook. I think most of them do not have a touch-screen because the idea was to keep the cost down. As far as being an e-reader - sure, but then again so can almost anything else like my pda/phone.

Should I have specified that the e-reader be readable? ;-) Sure, you can do it, but IMO the experience of reading something on a screen that small is disconcertingly laborious. Until some hypothetical date in which printed books have become quaint historical artifacts, the eye naturally wants to read books in a form factor resembling that of books. Even a Kindle seems a little cramped (the original, not the DX) and a Kindle is many times larger than a PDA or phone display.

I have refereed soccer with a guy who is a bigwig in Motorola's cellular group. Probably three years ago he had an as-yet unreleased phone and was so excited that he could view movies and TV shows on it. OK, it was cool that he could, but why the heck would he want to? To me that's not the same experience at all.