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From: Bob Villa on 15 Jun 2010 12:48 >By the way, will netbooks ever be less expensive? I can buy a laptop for that price, and have way more stuff on it like a DVD burner and more storage space - just 'cos a netbook is smaller... And now - back to Shakespeare. Melanie Thanks for the kind words (in English)! I agree about netbooks...if they were $150 I might think about it. For $300 you can get a Toshiba with Windows 7 and 3gigs of ram (not the everyday price, mind you!) Cheers, bob PS, the news group I was replying from is "comp.sys.laptops", and of course, this has been multiple posted originally.
From: BillW50 on 15 Jun 2010 14:07 In news:502593f1-e73b-4418-8b6b-9a21fea876ad(a)j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com, Bob Villa typed on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:48:59 -0700 (PDT): >> By the way, will netbooks ever be less expensive? > > I can buy a laptop for that price, and have way more > stuff on it like a DVD burner and more storage > space - just 'cos a netbook is smaller... > > And now - back to Shakespeare. > > Melanie > > Thanks for the kind words (in English)! > I agree about netbooks...if they were $150 I might think about it. For > $300 you can get a Toshiba with Windows 7 and 3gigs of ram (not the > everyday price, mind you!) > Cheers, > bob > > PS, the news group I was replying from is "comp.sys.laptops", and of > course, this has been multiple posted originally. Oh I love the little guys! So much, I bought five of them. They are so light and quiet and runs for many hours on battery. I even connected one up to an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. And most of the time, you forget the brains is really just a tiny netbook only using 10 watts of power. And carrying them around all day is no big deal. And as a test, I only used one single netbook for two months straight. And I didn't miss a bigger machine one bit. And these things are really rugged too. And the best part is they are so Star Trek like. There isn't much of a down side to them at all. I remember when Asus first came out with their first netbook in 2007. Many experts were saying there was no market for such a machine. And boy, were they ever wrong! They started selling like hotcakes. Then other manufactures started to come out with their own netbooks. But then again, I remember back when experts were saying that laptops would never make it either. Now look at them, outselling desktop machines. And it looks like netbooks might be outselling laptops by as early as by next year. That would be a very impressive feat IMHO. So what will topple netbook sales? How about people going nuts over the next innovation of netglasses. Where the glasses are the screen and the mouse follows your eye movements. And you blink your left eye for a left mouse click, right for the right one. Heck I would buy one of those. Maybe five of them. ;-) -- Bill Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 (quit Windows updates back in May 2009)
From: Bob Villa on 15 Jun 2010 15:30 On Jun 15, 11:07 am, "BillW50" <Bill...(a)aol.kom> wrote: > Innews:502593f1-e73b-4418-8b6b-9a21fea876ad(a)j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com, > Bob Villa typed on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:48:59 -0700 (PDT): > > > > >> By the way, will netbooks ever be less expensive? > > > I can buy a laptop for that price, and have way more > > stuff on it like a DVD burner and more storage > > space - just 'cos a netbook is smaller... > > > And now - back to Shakespeare. > > > Melanie > > > Thanks for the kind words (in English)! > > I agree about netbooks...if they were $150 I might think about it. For > > $300 you can get a Toshiba with Windows 7 and 3gigs of ram (not the > > everyday price, mind you!) > > Cheers, > > bob > > > PS, the news group I was replying from is "comp.sys.laptops", and of > > course, this has been multiple posted originally. > > Oh I love the little guys! So much, I bought five of them. They are so > light and quiet and runs for many hours on battery. I even connected one > up to an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. And most of the time, > you forget the brains is really just a tiny netbook only using 10 watts > of power. And carrying them around all day is no big deal. And as a > test, I only used one single netbook for two months straight. And I > didn't miss a bigger machine one bit. And these things are really rugged > too. And the best part is they are so Star Trek like. There isn't much > of a down side to them at all. > > I remember when Asus first came out with their first netbook in 2007. > Many experts were saying there was no market for such a machine. And > boy, were they ever wrong! They started selling like hotcakes. Then > other manufactures started to come out with their own netbooks. > > But then again, I remember back when experts were saying that laptops > would never make it either. Now look at them, outselling desktop > machines. And it looks like netbooks might be outselling laptops by as > early as by next year. That would be a very impressive feat IMHO. > > So what will topple netbook sales? How about people going nuts over the > next innovation of netglasses. Where the glasses are the screen and the > mouse follows your eye movements. And you blink your left eye for a left > mouse click, right for the right one. Heck I would buy one of those. > Maybe five of them. ;-) > > -- > Bill > Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC > Windows XP SP2 (quit Windows updates back in May 2009) We never said we DIDN'T want one! You can step down from the soapbox now.
From: BillW50 on 15 Jun 2010 15:36 In news:04d29013-0a71-4e9a-b0b0-0f5e16751ba3(a)t10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com, Bob Villa typed on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:30:02 -0700 (PDT): > We never said we DIDN'T want one! > You can step down from the soapbox now. No soapbox here. Just five netbooks. ;-) -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows XP SP3
From: AJL on 15 Jun 2010 16:25
"BillW50" <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: >So what will topple netbook sale? Maybe the tablet? Judging from the iPad frenzy the market is there, and Asus and several mfgs will be out soon with their own tablets. |