Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 11th Dec 2008 17:53 UTC, submitted by moleskine
There has been some concern among enthusiasts that the emerging netbook market is nothing but a fad - it's fun and interesting now, but it will die out soon enough. Intel and AMD sure seem to be very careful about the netbook market, but according to figures from DisplaySearch, the market for small notebooks has exploded over the course of a year.
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The article is offering theory and opinion as fact, saying that they are a fad. On a whim, I did some research yesterday morning, by checking the portable computer sales figures at Tigerdirect, Amazon, and Newegg. What I have found that netbooks are filling most of the top portable computer sales.
Even though I love small computers, such as the ancient Sharp PC1500, and a Sharp Mobilon, I never thought that Americans would accept a 10" form factor. Now that it's here, it may stay just like 12", 15", and 17"
At my local coffee shop, of the poeple who have netbooks, they like them a lot, and I am also seeing people who have them want more than one. I suspect that some of the increased sales is from people buying more than one.
I am predicting that as the time the netbook boom would have started to drop, the dual-core Atom processors will be out to keep people buying, if the thermal designs of the small machines can take it.
[I have a Thinkpad T61p Core 2, 2.2gz, 200mb HD, and yet I plan to get a Lenovo S10 because it's as much as I want to carry to the coffee shop sometimes, and it seems better suited for contact management and email because it's smaller.
I, like many people are watching to see if Lenovo will get off their A$$es and start shipping 6-Cell batteries in the box!]
[OT: generally, netbooks need more concavity in their keys. When you have small keys you need tactile feedback for the key edges. I wrote over 30,000 words on the Sharp Mobilon, which had smaller keys than a netbook, but I could feel where they are. On milimeter of key dish would make quite a difference.]
Edited 2008-12-12 11:42 UTC