It is not rocket science to build a netbook on DVD player platform, a few years ago. Components are cheaper, but still used PCI bus which slows down hardware to deliver data. Smartphones can run without PCI bus to do cloud computing. So the smaller sizes made components even cheaper.

People can live with smaller screens, ever since digital cameras delivered the resolution of 12 mega pixels(and jpeg zoom feature). For text, Opera mini to the rescue. But thumbnails can be zoomed into tabs for smaller subdivided webpages.

If you don't like smartphones, then a smartbook with larger screen will fit your bill.

However, year 2010 is still too early to decide the way manufacturers will change demands on chipsets and multicored cpus. So, we will probably wait until 2011 before everyone will change to smart some thing.

Will be attending CES LAS Jan.7-10, 2010 to see what is hot for the year of 2010 in computers and software?