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Kindle has a thickness of a cellphone. This is an important factor that many of the "NETBOOK" people seem to want to ignore.

• rbanffy 17y ago
  It's largely irrelevant. Netbooks are not designed to use flat batteries - most of them use cylindric cells - and have higher profile motherboards because memory and SSDs/hard disks live on sockets on top of the motherboard - because PC users are used to expand them. Netbooks also heat up a lot more than the cellphone-sized brain Kindles use and netbooks must accommodate heat management hardware (fans, heat exchangers) Kindles don't
  • jrockway 17y ago
    Uh, so? A user that wants a thin device doesn't care why the device is thin. Netbooks aren't as thin as a Kindle, period.
    • rbanffy 17y ago
      They can't be as thin as a Kindle - they are different devices designed to be used in different ways - a netbook is usually used the same way as a notebook (I use mine mostly on a desk, hooked up to a big monitor, a decent keyboard and mouse) while the Kindle is designed to be used as a book. I would happily trade a couple millimeters thickness for longer battery life, wi-fi, a hard-drive and network-printer emulation software so I could print my stuff to "paper stacks" on the device. Unfortunately, the absence of such device indicates strongly that those needs are mine only. I look forward to hacking the Tech Crunch thingie to suit those needs.