Walnut

August 23, 2010 at 12:48pm

This is going to be a "too little, too late" scenario. By this time next year, I'd bet tablets will be selling like hotcakes while netbook sales start to slide. Netbooks are just a pain in the ass to use. Unless it's really just a price thing, a 10" netbook really isn't any more portable than a nice 14" notebook, and the notebook is actually a serviceable computer. Lets just take those nice dual core chips, throw them into some nice Android tablets, and call it a day.

nHeroGo

August 23, 2010 at 12:15pm

Finally, there will be a revolution. Men and women with pitch forks storming the electronics stores damanding new under-powered components and setting fire to other under-powered components. It is going to be great. A whole new batch of inadequate premium junk to buy and dispose of. The sky is the limit. The future is bright.

I visited a cell phone store; they were selling a netbook with XP with a 2-year contract. A corporation taking advantage of a stupid consumer. I smiled and left while some idiot emptied his pocketbook. I had a similar laptop ten years ago (2000 for you without pocket calculators - a10.4-inch 2.9 lbs Sony laptop - apart from the wifi the netbooks have not come very far since then. Cell phones can do more things than netbooks, so netbook owners must be the segment of customers that cannot afford a real laptop or cell phone.

Recommendation: Always bring the bigger hammer to do the job! Leave the Swiss-Army knive toys for the kids.

aviaggio

August 23, 2010 at 10:38am

Sigh... does anyone really care about "netbooks" anymore (and I put the term in quotes because a $500 laptop with a small screen and no optical drive =! a netbook.)

chronium

August 23, 2010 at 8:24am

When's the Moorestown chips supposed to come out? I'm more interested in what those processors will do towards netbooks and such.