Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Oct 2009 19:51 UTC
The popularity of the blessed curse of the PC industry, the netbooks, just keeps on rising. DisplaySearch has published it latest quarterly report on the state of the notebook market, and conclude that netbook popularity is rising, but at the cost of revenues.
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I think the differentiation between a netbook and a notebook is that the netbook is biased toward small and cheap (and, increasingly, long battery life) while normal laptops are focused on some combination of performance, thinness, and features.
Of course, that's all a bit vague; if people didn't care about Netbook performance we wouldn't have the N280 and Ion; if people didn't care about inexpensive or long battery life on laptops we wouldn't have the Acer Timeline series or the ASUS Ux0 series.
For now I think the only real distinction is whether they're allowed to have Windows XP installed by Microsoft's definition. I suspect the real definition is more based on how the manufacturer arrived at the specs and marketing campaign, than what the specs actually are.