Star Study Says People Dissatisfied with Netbooks
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Jun 2009 13:31 UTC, submitted by Hakime
Hardware, Embedded Systems The NPD group has done a study into customer satisfaction among netbook buyers, and they came to some surprisingly unsurprising results. As it turns out, people who expected a notebook when they bought a netbook were more likely to be disappointed than buyers who set out to buy a netbook from the get-go. No doodoo, Sherlock.
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umccullough
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2006-01-26

So you're willing to settle for onboard sound, integrated graphics, and a miniature screen; you self-limit your computer use to low-resource OSes and software; and you know many work-arounds for other shortcomings. My point: you wouldn't have to if it were a 'real' computer.


On the other hand, you have set a "real computer" up on a pedestal as some sort of all-in-one machine that must have every bell and whistle... Quite sad really.

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Bobthearch Member since:
2006-01-27

On the other hand, you have set a "real computer" up on a pedestal as some sort of all-in-one machine that must have every bell and whistle... Quite sad really.


That's exactly what I expect from a primary computer, an all-in-one machine capable of every function I might envision needing and expandability/upgradability for flexibility of meeting future needs.

That's why a netbook would make a poor primary computer, and anyone who bought one thinking otherwise would be sorely disappointed.

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