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Intel on Netbooks: "it's fine for an hour. It's not something you're going to use day in and day out."
Tech Digest —
... picture. There's a lot of people out there who don't use a laptop day in and day out. They have a Desktop PC at work, a Desktop PC at home, and they want something to fill in the gaps in between - when travelling, for example. Netbooks are small, light, and cheap - a perfect fit for this niche. Netbooks probably don't deserve the level of rabid attention they currently get, but they're not that bad. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater... Intel's comments (via Cnet) Related posts: Lenovo promises two new netbooks - S9e and S10e | ...
Netbooks not suited to daily use, claims Intel VP
SlashGear —
... the Netbook as mostly incremental to our total available market” Stu Pann, VP of sales and marketing group, Intel
Pann went on to criticise the netbook form-factor as unsuitable for regular use, claiming: ”if you’ve ever used a Netbook and used a 10-inch screen size, it’s fine for an hour. It’s not something you’re going to use day in and day out.” The Intel VP was speaking at an IT supply chain conference.
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Intel: netbooks are OK for an hour or so, that's all
jkOnTheRun —
... to use day in and day out."
Yes, Intel is stepping back publicly from the whole netbook as capable computer meme. Intel is stating that these netbook things are not good for extended usage. There are millions of folks who I'll bet will argue with that viewpoint based on sales numbers. Perhaps Intel is beginning to feel a lot of pressure from laptop makers who are feeling the netbook eat into traditional notebook sales?
(via CNET)
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Intel VP says netbook are "fine for an hour"
Engadget —
Intel's never made a secret of the fact that it developed the now-ubiquitous Atom chipset primarily for mobile devices and low-powered netbooks for at emerging markets, so it's not totally surprising to hear Intel sales VP Stu Pann say the company doesn't see netbooks as potentially cannibalizing sales of its existing processors -- but we are a bit intrigued by his seeming dismissal of netbooks as everyday machines. According to Stu, a netbook with a 10-inch screen is "fine for an hour. It's not something you're going to use day in and day out." That's probably true, of ...
Intel slams netbooks
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... Unlike car manufacturers, Intel is not the sort of company to say "Sure, we lose money with every sale, but we make it up on volume!"
Netbooks are low-profit items that threaten a high-profit ecosystem. Intel doesn't want to swap its Core 2 dollars for Atom pennies, and always imagined its low-power chips as a sideline, for $2,000 UMPCs or $500-ish "mobile internet devices"—items which, unlike netbooks, are inherently incapable of replacing normal laptops.
Intel rethinks Netbooks: ‘Fine for an hour’ but.. [CNET]
