[Liverpool] New Netbook/Laptop suggestions

[Andrew Williams]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:58:19AM -0400, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I too had a 12" Mac, an iBook, but I think I prefer the form factor of
> this Eee PC 900,but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of small
> netbooks with SSD storage now.

I think the OEMs realised that they kicked off the netbooks revolution a 
little too early, working with either small celerons or the new Atom. SSDs 
were nothing more than a stacked flash drive with a IDE interface. Intel are 
pushing in this market and their SSDs are AMAZING, but for the mean time the 
OEMs have moved back to HDDs and the newer Atoms.

The days of the Eee style netbooks are over IMHO. They're now turning
into just small laptops again. If anything I think the netbook revolution
just proved to the OEMs that a market for small, ultra portable, but low
powered laptops does exist.

-- 
Andrew Williams
w: http://tensixtyone.com/
e: andy (at) tensixtyone.com
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