Find hardware that works for your needs - if you don't need Apple, you have many, many more choices and hardware options - and run it with Vista (or Windows 7 beta, if you can find it). Keep up with all the patches, as Microsoft strongly recommends.

Apple isn't as secure, although their ad campaign pretends it is; but folks, obscurity masquerading as security doesn't keep you safe. For example, see here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/mar/28/macbookairfirsttofallinh

BTW, Microsoft has been supporting touch screen for many years, if that's what you want.

I predict it will be available with internal wireless broadband service from a variety of cellular providers.

This will enable Apple to make an expensive "go anywhere" netbook and sell it cheaply - the monthly subscriber fees will subsidize the higher prices, just like cellphones.

This will also enable Apple to start doing business with other wireless players, while sticking to the terms of its agreement with AT&T.

In the end, Apple will be able to pit these telcos against each other in business deals to its advantage, much the same way it did with the recording industry and the iTunes Music Store.

Their netbook (the iNet?) will run the iPhone/iPod touch MacOS, optimized for the same applications and games available from the App Store.

It will leverage the GPS and motion sensing capabilities of the smaller iPhone platform, with the better performance of the larger Mac Books. The mobile apps will drive mobile data plan subscriptions, and vice-versa.

The (more or less) locked down nature of the platform will reduce piracy and give Apple even greater control over what its clients see, hear, use and buy.

Their netbook will be the razor, and cellular broadband and apps will be the blades...