Notebooks vs. Laptops

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The move to create mini-me's named Notebooks is a valid one. However, it seems to me that the manufacturers are missing the market. A Notebook is not a mini-Laptop, hence, it should not be bloated with those things that are in a laptop. A notebook needs to be: 1. Inexpensive 2. Broadband connectible with fast browser 3. Fast 4. Flash disk 5. Ports for connecting other things, USB A notebook does NOT need: 1. a camera 2. hard disk 3. SCSI connection 4. Loads of connections 5. Too many add-on applications 6. Bluetooth 7. Extraneous doo-dads A notebook with a fast OS, built-in browser and access to the Internet is all that is needed and is the basic. Nothing else is really needed. Once you turn it on and get on the Internet, everything is there. In fact, with Internet applications there is no need for applications on the notebook. Email and Office applications on the Internet include storage for such output, hence little need for a notebook with a hard disk. Consider online applications such as: 1. gmail for email 2. glide 3.0 for a desktop and office applications and a number of other online application providers The OS need not be Microcrap, but a stripped down version of Linx. If, and this is a big if, a notebook user wants to use a camera to take pictures or upload pictures, then the USB port can be used to either connect a camera, or a flash card reader. If there is a need for anything that is not on the notebook the connection via USB is there for that. Alternately, get a bloated laptop for those applications. The market for a notebook is straightforward, no need to make it a smaller version of a bloated laptop. If they were to do that the price reflects the idea. Why do manufacturers insist on not creating this notebook?