Leave it to Steve Jobs to figure out how to charge $1,000 for a netbook.

Granted, calling the new baby MacBook Air a netbook is probably punishable by flogging at Apple Inc.’s corporate HQ. Indeed, the entire category of netbooks-shrunken laptops that usually weigh 2 to 3 pounds and lack such accoutrements as a DVD drive-is under growing pressure from, among other things, the new wave of even lighter tablet computers spearheaded by Apple’s own iPad.

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