Netbook Market 40% Down - Microsoft

[11796pcs]

For anyone with brains netbooks > tablets... I just don't get how people spend as much as $400 more for something that doesn't have a real OS, inferior hardware (that's saying something compared to netbooks), alot less space for your stuff and no keyboard; and in most cases no Flash (taking to you iPad. But they're shiny and thin so they must be good .

 

[dark_lord69]

I saw that coming before tablets even got popular.

 

[stingray71]

Use to think tablets were a fade till I bought one. Now that I have one, my pc/laptop sit idle 85% of the time. Those who discount them have not tried one.

These easily replace day-planners and then some. Calenders, contacts, tasks, ability to transport work files, etc make these slick little machines.

Also, Asus has a nice little BT keyboard/mouse dock. Next Honeycomb update will have BT mouse support, keyboard support already exist. Combine this with a 1080p monitor, and most wouldn't need a laptop anymore.

Tablets are here to stay, their acceptance my be slow, but it's growing steadily. Those who get them see there true potential. Asus $399 Honeycomb table only helps push tablets into the mainstream.

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]kinggraves[/nom]Netbooks themselves seem to be at the limit of their abilities as well. Fusion was supposed to be the game changer for netbooks, but if you look at the devices using the E-350, it's pretty much either cheap, full size, lowend notebooks or expensive, high end (by netbook standards) netbooks. The original point of netbooks was to be affordable, otherwise they're just the "ultraportables" of old that never sold. You still have to go Atom if you want a cheap netbook (even though you can get an HP DM1Z rather cheap if you play HP just right). So I think the traditional netbook might be going out of fashion, returning to it's ultraportable roots.[/citation]E-350 is the fastest and most power hungry chip of the Brazos lineup (it's a Zacate chip). So of COURSE it isn't going to be in the slowest, cheapest models. Try looking at some Ontario models like the C-30 and C-50. Also it is still fairly new, and there aren't that many models on the market competing with each other on price. Unlike the tons of Atom variants.

Also, "Fusion" refers to not only Brazos platform (Ontario and Zacate), but also the upcoming Lynx platform (Llano).

 

[fir_ser]

I don’t believe the netbook will go away, but it will definitely lose market share against the tablet.

 

[sinfulpotato]

I don't understand why everyone is looking at tablets as the culprit...

Smartphones with 4"+ touchscreen screens are the problem. I can surf the web, email, call, and text with this one device.

 

[eddieroolz]

See, it was a fad. Why anyone would want to live with underpowered machines never made sense to me.