Netbooks are dead? Just when I thought these were the answer to the one to one situation.

• Netbooks are dead. Long live the notebook. | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com

  tags: netbooks

  • - post by robert_alford
  • Even Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Dell CEO Michael Dell have spoken out about the poor user experience of netbooks. Ballmer is especially bullish on CULV systems, even though Microsoft only makes a little bit more money on CULV machines than netbooks.
  • To these consumers, the term “netbook” meant two things: cheap and portable. What many of them quickly found out was that these PCs had LCDs so small that they didn’t work well with many applications and Web sites, had non-standard keyboards that were not meant for extended use with adult-sized fingers, and had CPU power that was ill-equipped to handle heavy multi-tasking or anything other than standard Web or productivity applications.

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