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...and yet this sparked a revolution called netbooks that took over a full 20% of the laptop market at their peak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook https:
by benoau 5mo ago
...and yet this sparked a revolution called netbooks that took over a full 20% of the laptop market at their peak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook
- doubled112 5mo agoThey sold well. In my experience working at Staples at that time, small and cheap beat any other consideration for many customers. Hard to argue with a $99 PC. A few months later, they'd realize it wasn't working out, come back, scream at us, and buy something bigger and faster. I really liked the MSI one I had, but I knew what I was getting into.
- lowbloodsugar 5mo agoI mean, I did buy one =)
- fragmede 5mo agoEven Apple made an 11" laptop in that era!
- vel0city 5mo agoYes, a ton of people bought them. Then they took them home and used them. Then they bought something else. Now we don't really have mass-production netbooks anymore.
- regularfry 5mo agoPart of that was incidental factors. The 701 happened partly because of a glut of cheap, standardised screens designed for that first generation of in-car dashboard sat-nav systems. It didn't help that those screens weren't particularly good.