I don't think so. The popularity of netbooks suggests that the consumer market still wants a keyboard that supports touch typing and a screen big enough for... I'm not actually sure. Multi-paragraph documents like letter-length emails and news articles, perhaps?<p>Larger laptops seem to be left at home most of the time. 15" seems to be the upper end of what people carry around. Even as a member of that content-producer class, I'd be annoyed by a larger laptop. I just went for a 15" with a higher resolution screen.