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Carrie Marshall

‘They’re just cheap laptops’: Steve Jobs once derided netbooks, and now Apple’s made one in the MacBook Neo — and that’s a great thing

The MacBook Neo at an Apple event.

If you're as old as I am, you might remember the early-2000s demands for Apple to make a netbook, which was a super-cheap lightweight laptop that cost pennies compared to a normal PC.

Steve Jobs wasn't impressed, deriding them as "cheap laptops"; he also said that Apple simply didn't know how to make a $500 computer that was not "a piece of junk". So Apple made the MacBook Air and then the iPad instead.

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