At last Apple has seen the light and may already be in the process of creating one of those very popular, stylish, smaller, fashionable inexpensive portable netbook computers for its consumers. Dow Jones said we could see an Apple netbook after the second half of the year.
Reliable sources say Apple is now working with two well-known manufacturers Wintek and Quanta Computer to assemble the first Apple branded netbooks. At this time, mentioned both companies produce netbooks for other companies. Netbooks those are already introduced by Asus, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and others are small in size and computing power, but extremely portable. Netbooks generally weigh less than three pounds.
At present, Apple’s least expensive laptop is its white MacBook. The MacBook comes with a 13.3-inch screen, 2GB of RAM, 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It has a 120 GB hard drive sells and can run on the latest version of Apple’s OS X. weighs 4.5 pounds. It price is $999.
Netbooks do not typically have CD or DVD drives inside. They have Wi-Fi connectivity. Prices range usually from less than $300 for models with seven-inch screens to above $700 for larger-screen devices with more memory and internal storage that run on Microsoft’s Windows XP. According to as industry expert Apple’s mini laptop computers likely will get monitor screens that are between 9.7-inches and 10-inches. But other one says specifications and functions are still under evaluation.
