New ultra-portable MacBook rumours - your views?

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There has been a resurgence in the past few weeks of the rumours of a new ultra-portable Macbook. An announcement could be made at MacWorld in January. The rumours seem to indicate:

12" or 13" screen
Around 50% lighter and thinner than the smallest MacBook Pro
Possibly NAND flash-based memory
No optical drive

Personally I'd be tempted if it was 12" (13" seems to big for an ultra-portable), and was superlight. It would be awesome for taking abroad or on photo-trips.
If it does come to fruition though, i'd expect to pay Macbook Pro prices and possible then some.

So opinions? :)
 
What about an optical drive in a little external usb caddy? I rarely install stuff, but when I had to I could use the caddy.

I think if it had a fair amount of flash memory (how much would something like 64Gb cost?) and 2Gb of RAM, I would pay around £1000. It would have to be quite a bit smaller / lighter than my 15" MacBook Pro though.
 
Few more rumours out:

MacRumors has heard reliable confirmation about some features in upcoming Apple notebook releases due at Macworld San Francisco 2008.

A Mac sub-notebook is indeed expected to be coming at the Macworld and, as rumored, will not coming with an internal optical drive. This omission is presumably due to Apple's ongoing efforts to reduce the size of their laptops. Instead, Apple is said to be offering an external optical drive with the sub-notebook. This detachable external drive would allow customers to read/write from CDs or DVDs as usual, but would allow users to leave this extra bulk at home when on the road.

Apple is also said to be introducing more than one notebook revision at Macworld. What combination of Sub-Notebook, MacBook or MacBook Pro remains unknown, but we've heard that at least one of these new notebooks will incorporate a multi-touch trackpad. The possibility of a multi-touch trackpad has been suggested by both rumors and published patent applications but has not previously been explicitly confirmed.

Macworld Expo kicks off on January 15th, 2008 with Steve Jobs' keynote address.
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The no-optical drive should mean a true ultra-portable afterall :)
 
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