Don't understand why "netbooks are going the way of the dodo" and "the race to the bottom will make them disappear". The race to the bottom will shake up the market and make the industry more competitive, but shipping cheap netbooks that low-end laptop shoppers want (and can't distinguish between except on binary acceptibility and price!) is a dominant strategy.

Somehow, quoting almost exclusively from a satirical parody site does not add weight to the OP's argument.