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Posted - 2009.05.25 07:50:00 -
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Originally by: Siigari Kitawa I don't want to try to derail from the current thread at all, but after reading what everyone has been talking about netbooks it brings me to an interesting thought.
Netbooks seem to be a flash in the pan, in my eyes. Everyone is talking about them, they're small and they check email and what not. Even with them taking away the current market share, the simple fact is they are highly restrictive despite technological advances forward to make better components into a small box. There is only so much you can do with a 10" screen or smaller, and I do not believe that they are going to stick around for long.
I may sound ignorant, but this is coming from personal experience. When I visit my parent's house, they have a Netbook which I sometimes use to check my email. It is a bricky little thing but it has an awkward keyboard and a half-resolution screen. It seems to me like developers have attempted to merge Mobile/Portable OS with a full desktop/laptop OS and the results are laughable.
I dunno why I'm saying all this. Maybe it's just because they seem to be so "cool" or something, but I would very much rather have a portable laptop with high end everything rather than something I can flop into my backpack. Because laptops are not made as desktop replacements, and netbooks are even more geared from becoming just an "email box", why don't you just use your cell phone to check your mail?
Just my thoughts.
They're slightly more than an 'e-mail box' and, in my experience, are nothing like you've described above.
They're what laptops should always have been, something small and light which are capable of doing almost as much as a desktop machine. Other than games and high-end applications then this little Dell Mini 9 (yes, I am sitting on my sofa, watching TV, using my netbook to reply to your post) can do as much as my desktop machine.
I also use it for work (I refuse to lug around the 17" Dell Latitude that I was provided with) and it can run the full MS Office suite I need for that, as well as utilising all the web-apps which are required for work.
I do use my mobile phone for e-mails and web (iPhone since you asked) and it does a very good job, but it's nowhere near as versatile as my netbook.
I wouldn't consider this to be a replacement for my desktop machine, but rather a complimentary machine which allows me to be much more portable, something that a high end laptop wouldn't allow because it's just too big and too heavy.
/fanboi
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