Eh. I think if Apple released something with roughly these specs:<p><pre><code>  - circa 9" screen
  - razor thin with a super clean design
  - reasonable battery life (~2hrs at least)
  - a multi-touch screen and the UI tweaks to maximize that potential
  - a workable on screen pseudo-keyboard
  - built in wifi/3G and just about nothing else
    (no optical drive, no vga out, maybe not even a usb port)
  - decent performance specs for the netbook range 
    (e.g. atom/core2 cpu, 1gb ram or more, high-performance SSD)
</code></pre>
Given that, even if it's not a "radically new look", I think they'd make a killing (technical term: a metric pants-load of filthy lucre). Sure, it may not revolutionize the world, and it may be more of an iterative design improvement than anything else, but it would be enormously desirable to an amazingly large segment of the market. And it's hard to complain about that (if you're the seller), regardless of whether it's yet another thin, shiny, white computing device.<p>Also, even though something like what I described above (which is pretty similar to what a lot of other people expect from Apple, no doubt) may not be revolutionary but it would still represent trailblazing on Apple's part. Currently the netbook market is synonymous with discount computing. If you want a small form factor, low power system you'll end up sacrificing a lot of quality and a lot of performance almost regardless of how much money you are willing to spend. So if you want a small form factor system with fabulous battery life <i>and</i> you want a rockin' high-performance SSD you are forced to make an after market modification. The high-end in the notebook space skews very sharply toward larger systems and toward desktop replacement or gaming laptops. If Apple releases a premium quality netbook size tablet (which seems likely) they would essentially be creating a new premium netbook market. Which is hardly a bad thing for consumers whose needs are currently not being met by the market.