Michael Dell Criticizes Netbooks, Praises Windows 7
Michael Dell Criticizes Netbooks, Praises Windows 7
Posted 10/16/2009 at 11:53am
| by Bart Salisbury
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Michael Dell’s attendance at a Silicon Valley dinner sponsored by the Churchill Club seems to have devolved into a pity party, as the founder and CEO and founder of Dell Computers laid into netbooks. Dell is reported to have said: “Take a user who's used to a 15-inch notebook and then give him a 10-inch netbook. He'll say 'Oh, this is so cool, it's so lightweight.' Then 36 hours later he'll say the screen's not big enough, give me my 15-inch back." Which he followed up with this: “For a replacement machine or for a high-end machine, it's not what we'd recommend.”
Excuse me, Michael, but your company sells netbooks; the Mini-10, for example. And, its a fair guess, people who buy these know what they are getting themselves into with the smaller screens, tiny keyboards, and underpowered processors. While it’s fair to note that netbooks are poor substitutes for ‘real’ notebooks, it doesn’t appear that’s buyers are necessarily purcashing netbooks as replacements for notebooks. Perhaps Dell is channeling his inner rage over the extraordinarily low margins on netbooks?
On a happy note, Dell likes him some Windows 7. "If you get the latest processor technology and you get Windows 7 and Office 2010, you will love your PC again," Dell said. "And we actually have not been able to say that for a long time. It's a dramatic improvement." So Windows 7 is good because you’ll now need to buy a new computer; a new Dell computer.
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RedAnt751
October 18, 2009 at 10:29am
wow, just because " The Mini-10" sucks and you cant give them is no reason to hate on netbooks.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing
in a garage makes you a car.
nsk chaos
October 17, 2009 at 8:19pm
lol. don't you just love it when ppl criticize things for what they aren't supposed to be? like hating the turtle because it cant fly or cursing the dinosaurs because they didn't survive the extinction...albeit these examples are a bit more extreme than the one presented above, but i hope you reading this get the picture...=) XD lol
DriZzLe
October 16, 2009 at 1:53pm
Rocking it on my quad core Intel desktop, my Atom netbook, & my fater-in-law's old P4 desktop.
Havok
October 16, 2009 at 12:22pm
Dell's just pissed that their Mini-10 netbook blows. Sure, the keyboard is comfy, and the screen is nice and large for a netbook, but it's a wee bit slower than most other netbooks, and it has a fairly small HDD, only80 gigs large. Plus, to add insult on injury, the price was pretty high for what you were getting. At work, we were selling them at 499.99 CDN while you could get a much better Asus 1000 HE or Toshiba NB200 for around 50- 80 bucks cheaper.
Dell thinks : "Well, If we can't make em and sell em good, no one else should."
That's akin to the guy that just before he ragequits, goes ahead and teamkills everyone from behind.
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