I think it depends. Don’t get me wrong, the comparison was a little silly but right now I’m in the process of doing test runs with a few netbooks at work and have found them to be effective replacements in certain areas. Mostly for people who only do data entry into a web application.

For us that means about 97 positions which adds up to big money in the end. So there’s some validity to the idea even if that particular comparison was bogus.

(The caveat being that this only works with the few netbook models that have close to full size keyboards)