China Looking to AMD and VIA for Netbooks Larger than 12 Inches
China Looking to AMD and VIA for Netbooks Larger than 12 Inches
Posted 07/31/2009 at 6:53pm
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Some manufacturers are trying their best to blur the line that separates netbooks from notebooks. According to a Commercial Times report, white-box netbook manufacturers in China have also turned their attention to producing netbooks with large displays. They are said to be manufacturing netbooks, with screen sizes in excess of 12 inches, based on AMD and VIA processors. According to the report, they are deliberately avoiding using Intel processors as the chip maker has placed restrictions on the screen size of Atom-toting netbooks. Besides, they are helped in making their choice by the fact that VIA processors are much cheaper than their Intel counterparts.
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nekollx
August 03, 2009 at 10:08am
does Win 7 limit the netbook edition by scheen size as well though?
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relaxed911
August 03, 2009 at 8:17am
Netbooks larger than 12". Isn't that called a notebook? Really, once you take away the portability of a netbook, what's the point? Pay less for a crippled notebook that's just as clunky. Seem a bit kludgy.
theresapartyinm...
August 02, 2009 at 6:18am
Via needs to jump into the netbook scene fast because it's a newer market that amd has no share in. If via gets in before amd can get rolling I would be very happy because I have a netbook powered by a via processor and although it runs hot due to its 90nm process it does not sacrifice speed. It powered through vista like a champ and when I decided to test Windows Seven out it runs even faster.
theresapartyinm...
August 02, 2009 at 6:18am
Via needs to jump into the netbook scene fast because it's a newer market that amd has no share in. If via gets in before amd can get rolling I would be very happy because I have a netbook powered by a via processor and although it runs hot due to its 90nm process it does not sacrifice speed. It powered through vista like a champ and when I decided to test Windows Seven out it runs even faster.
MeTo
August 01, 2009 at 9:12am
Now if the japanese would jump on the AMD/VIA processors it might tell Microsoft/Intel stop telling us what we can do or canot do. Lets see we cant sell enough 15" and up laptops so lets limet the size of nettop/netbooks to 10". What difference does it make if its 8" 10" 12" 15" 17" if i want a 17" nettop/netbook beacuse of my bad eye sight i should beable to have one.
domih2009
August 01, 2009 at 12:48pm
Economics: let's say you have a 17" 'netbook' at $650 and a 17" 'laptop' at $1300. The populace will majoritarily buy the netbook because of the price. In a certain extent that's OK because a netbook is sufficient for browsing, emailing, facebooking and so on. In other words, the 17" netbook cannibalizes the 17" laptop market. CPU and laptop manufacturers are making less money. From their point of view it is much better to have people buying a 17" laptop AND a 10" netbook.
ghot
July 31, 2009 at 8:18pm
....some companies have decided to just stand up to Intel :)
Take an OS, and edit out all the efficiency, and what you have left is a post-XP Microsoft operating system :)
tylertjs
July 31, 2009 at 8:00pm
i clicked the read more button but there was no more, so i thought i would comment in order to invalidate the uselessness of the read more button, just trying to do my part
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