Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Nov 2008 12:42 UTC
Netbooks are still all the rage these days, but according to Intel, this is going to change soon. The company has stated that they first thought that netbooks, who are almost exclusively powered by Intel chips, would be for emerging markets, but as it turns out, they are especially popular in Europe and North America. Intel claims that while these devices are "fine for an hour", they are not something for day to day use. And AMD? They are ignoring the market altogether.
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There's only one reason Apple, AMD, and Intel don't like the netbook market, and that's because the margins are so thin that it's not worth participating in the segment. And those margins are only going to get thinner as time goes on.
The vast majority of people don't buy a netbook because of its form factor or open source OS, they buy it because it's a $300 computer, which is below their risk threshold.