Three Reasons Why Netbooks Just Aren’t Good Enough (flag)

www.techcrunch.com — The debate about Netbooks, which are very small and very cheap laptop devices, is beginning to heat up. The category is only about a year old but sales are expected to top 5 million this year. Lots of people think Netbooks are the next big volume market because they allow people who ...

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TechCrunch slams netbooks
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... TechCrunch's own takedown of netbooks is actually a much-needed counter to the insane hype surrounding these mobile mediocrities, but it misses the point and lards the piece with bafflingly obvious errors. ...

Arrogant Arrington thinks Netbooks Aren’t Good Enough?
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Mobile tech is very personal
jkOnTheRun — ... A lot of attention has been generated by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch with his recent article Three Reasons Why Netbooks Just Aren't Good Enough.  Arrington made a big mistake with this article which examines what features netbooks lack and thus why they are not the cat's meow many think they are.  His mistake was not what he said but how he said it.  His article implies that netbooks fail everyone, not just him. ...