Microsoft Wants to Call Netbooks Something Else

[Dave K]

also... I think their attempt is doomed to fail... "Netbook" is here to stay. It's short, fits nicely in the portable terminology line: "Laptop, Notebook, Netbook", and is already in wide popular use. Once it gets beyond geek-speek it's really too late to try to change it.

 

[snotling]

thightop or legtop... since it's too small to cover the entire lap.

 

[Guest]

A 'Low-cost' small notebook PC is as much a bad name as netbook, for many are no 'low cost' anymore.
A 'low cost' computer I would call a sub $300 machine.
Even $300 is pretty expensive... Not everyone can just simply give $300 cash.

What I would really call lowcost would be sub $200 computers!

 

[my_name_is_earl]

How bout "Strip Tease." Because it can only do so many thing a full laptop can.

 

[Hanin33]

i throw in my 2cents with "craptop"... they all are in comparison to a normal desktop.

 

[ta152h]

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;--
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title:--Romeo, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.

 

[judeh101]

how about "LPP (Low-Power Portables)" that works too

 

[grieve]

I guess i will be the first one to say it...

These last few months I have grown accustomed to the term "netbook"

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Why not just cal it a "Micro top"?

 

[tayb]

Just call them what they are. Crapbooks.

 

[jesseralston]

I like minitops.

 

[Guest]

"Pocketbooks" -- because they cost less out of pocket (at least until Microsoft rebrands the segment) and they're the size of a book.

 

[belardo]

Howabout: Only-Mainstream-PC-withOut-Vista? OMPCwoV!

I played with a 1.6Ghz Atom Netbook & NetPc today, with WindowsXP. It was rather responsive. Not bad for a $330 computer with a 9.5" screen.

Netbook / NetPC are good terms, and I think they do kind of move the netbooks away from "microsoft" because of Linux. The prices are good, the performance is go and its the easist way to pickup a new PC without Vista.

What I saw today in a store:
$500 - Lenovo basic 15" Notebooks, 3GB RAM, Dual Core Pentium, 160+ GB HD with Vista or WinXP.
$350 - Lenovo netbook - 9~10" screen, 1GB RAM, Atom, Windows XP.

As long as Netbooks are $200~400 complete computers, they will continue to sell. I wish what we HAVE today was around when I bought my ThinkPad... a tiny Netbook would have been just as good for my needs.

 

[cruiseoveride]

[citation][nom]WheelsOfConfusion[/nom]Why is MS suddenly interested in dictating not only what hardware can be used, but now what the hardware can be called?[/citation]
Because they can and cos they're evil

 

[magicandy]

It shouldn't be called a notebook because it can now do much more than just take notes, am I right microsoft?

 

[Guest]

My love is a fever, longing still for that which
longer nurseth the disease
In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors see.
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who in despite of view are pleased to dote.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
When I have plucked the rose,
I cannot give it vital growth again.
It needs must wither.

 

[chripuck]

That has to be the lamest thing I've heard in a long time...

 

[eccentric909]

[citation][nom]judeh101[/nom]how about "LPP (Low-Power Portables)" that works too[/citation]

Loss Prevention Principles? Anyone who works in the chemical sector or for major corporations would be confused, since that is what LPP stands for.

 

[norbs]

PortaTops

 

[hixbot]

Who cares what Microsoft wants?