Kevin Tofel over at jkOnTheRun wrote a good summary of why we’ll probably see an Apple netbook sometime this year. He listed three very good reasons why Apple will produce a netbook, and I agree for the most part – I differ on the issue … Read more
Wired Magazine has written a comprehensive and fairly balanced article on netbooks. Whether it ends up in the November edition of the print magazine (I didn’t see it in October’s), I don’t know. I do know it was pretty well written and researched and it … Read more
Acer Chairman JT Wang briefly mentioned Acer’s 8.9″ Acer Aspire One netbook in a discussion about Acer’s finances, shipments, and goals for this year and next. Notebooks as a whole accounted for almost 63 million of the 139 million total PCs that Acer shipped in … Read more
There’s no doubt that netbooks have been wildly successful. Ultraportable laptops in the 11″ and below range have always done fairly well in Asia, even before the netbooks came along, but the netbooks have been more successful in other parts of the world than many … Read more
It turns out that netbooks maybe having an impact on notebook sales, going by what some analysts are saying. Back in August, we mentioned comments by Intel’s Chief Financial Officer about the concern of netbooks cannibalizing larger / mainstream notebooks. They felt it was growing … Read more