Apple Messiah Steve Jobs is apparently back at work controlling the birth of Apple's netbook.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Jobs might have told the world that he is taking life easy and not being involved in the daily grind of being a Messiah for countless Apple fanboys.

However, he is apparently working on designs and plans for a new ultra expensive netbook. We say ultra expensive because Jobs has famously said that Apple could not make anything for under $500 which was not a hunk of junk.

According to the WSJ the netbook will be larger than the iPhone/iPod touches, yet smaller than any of its laptops. Apple has placed an order for 10-inch touchscreens from a Taiwan distributor for delivery in the third quarter so the idea is that these could be for Jobs' new netbooks.  However if this was true then it would kill off another popular rumour that Apple is about to release a tablet. They could be the same thing of course.  Apple's netbook would actually be a tablet, but we suspect that the tablet would be a lot more upmarket than a netbook.

Jobs was supposed to be taking up his full time duties again in June, so if the WSJ is right and he is working on a netbook project it means that he felt that a netbook needs to be out very soon. It also means that he might actually be getting better quickly, otherwise he probably wouldn't be using his energy giving Apple fanboys wet dreams, making gear that will be laughed at in 20 years.