[Liverpool] New Netbook/Laptop suggestions

[Vladimir]

*[quote]The whole netbook thing is messed up now. The whole point of them
was
that they were small, lightweight and cheap, but now the manufacturers
are adding size, weight, features and price, turning them into small
laptops and losing their unique features*.*[/quote]*
*yes this is the problem. i don't want a netbook with anything more than 7-8
inch display.*
*and that 10" screens makes it not already an ultra portable netbook, but
not a laptop *
*computer yet.
*





2009/9/9 Andrew Williams <andy at tensixtyone.com>

> 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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