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> ultrabooks are essentially a new name for netbooks. The raison d'être of netbooks was not portability, it was the ridiculously low price. > I don't think th
by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> ultrabooks are essentially a new name for netbooks.
The raison d'être of netbooks was not portability, it was the ridiculously low price.
> I don't think the netbook has failed; it's just been subsumed
No. Netbooks were new, trendy, selling well and overall successful. Everybody and their dog had them, bought them and would have kept buying replacements if they werent panically removed from the market and replaced with subnotebooks/ultrabooks at 2-4 times the initial netbook price.
- DanBC 14y agoSmart phones had a significant impact. The original eee pc 701 had a small keyboard; a small (but I think nice) display and limited soldered in SSD storage. (4 gb). This was released 2007. That's the same year the first iPhone was released. While netbooks are useful for some people a lot of people just need to read email, noodle about on the web, and play games. I agree that it's really annoying that really cheap, portable, limited function machines are not available. Chromebooks are probably the closest, but the cloud thing is a bit of a worry for me.