"...whereas the iPad is for those that really just wanted something cheap to get on the internet with…"
Can't agree with you about this part. From my own experience, that isn't at all what drove my decision to buy an iPad. Second, iPads are still more expensive than Netbooks were, so if price was the primary driver you wouldn't be looking at an iPad at all.
I don't know a single person that has a netbook that loves it.
I loved the form factor of my 9" HP Mini. The design and ergonomics were great, as was the feature-price ratio. At the time, I very sincerely wished that Apple would make a nearly identical machine that ran OS X, because the one thing I didn't like about it was that it ran Windows.
I've since moved on to a Macbook Pro and an iPad Mini, but to this day I still would much rather have a Mac version of that HP Mini.
Netbooks were killed by Microsoft....forcing oems to install Windows over Linux and restricting screen sizes to 10in.
Basically held the industry to ransom...
Microsoft's limitations, if I recall correctly, were attached to Windows 7 Starter Edition - if you put Win 7 Pro on netbook, MS doesn't care about your screen or RAM size. Thus there were netbooks with HDDs over 250GB and RAM over 1 GB... but with higher Windows 7 SKUs.
Netbook was unloved child by most involved, a Cinderella in a way. Intel was not happy with people buying it's cheapest PC tech (and reducing sales of higher end, higher profit products) while MS didn't want to make Win 7 Starter as useful as more expensive SKUs.
It ended up with platform that pretty much stagnated for a few years, giving no reason for customer to upgrade (unless their unit died). The whole approach gave cheapest IT money can buy - currently Acer Aspire One costs NZ$461 while 16GB iPad Mini costs NZ$475 - but it turned out there is a limit how cheap average customer wants his computing, and it seems netbooks went below that, amazing as it may sound.
MBA is not netbook in terms of hardware, but is in terms of form factor. I wouldn't call them netbooks, but I would call them result of netbooks' evolution. Same as Ultrabooks from likes of Asus, Acer and others.
Sure, sales of netbooks to middle/upper-middle class westerners is going to drop due to tablets, but the platform isn't going to "die" for a long time.
A sub-$300 computer for internet/emailing and working from home is still preferable to a great many people compared to extensive use of a virtual keyboard on a tablet. Most of Asia will be choose netbooks over tablets for much of the foreseeable future, for example.
I spend a lot of time in Nepal, India and China with work, and the only places you see tablets in use are in really high end shopping malls (where the children of the rich drink coffee and watch YouTube). Otherwise, cheap netbooks are used by pretty much all my colleagues and can be seen everywhere you go. Sending emails/writing reports for 8 hours a day is still a lot easier on a keyboard for most, and in these countries an iPad would cost more than double what a new netbook would.
The problem with netbooks is its hard to get a really good picture of some sexy hottie baring all her assets on them. I need at least a 1o.10 inch screen to do that . Also it much easier to quickly switch the app when the wife comes in the room with a iPad so she doesn't see the porn I'm looking at
The whole netbook thing was executed poorly. They were originally designed to run some flavor of Linux rather than Windows.
No, they were originally designed to get Microsoft to offer XP licenses for longer to OEMs. Even the original netbooks came with references to Windows XP in their manuals when only Linux versions ever existed.
Yep, and I just bought one. My life is too comfortable and efficient so I decided to hate the world a little¡ Seriously though, I did just buy the one paxman mentioned earlier as I need an additional machine just for testing network connectivity. For pings mostly, which it's really all it's good for.
Certain people who possess an unbelievable ignorance and who have been making complete fools of themselves, have been continuously blabbering about 'iPad Killers' for a very long time now, but if these people had any clue at all, they'd realize that the only killer in the room is the iPad itself.
How many things has the iPad killed already? The iPad is a serial killer, a mass murderer of other devices, and most likely one of the most successful mass murderers in history, when it comes to the category of tech devices. There is already a long, bloody trail of pathetic victims that the iPad has already laid waste to, mostly cheap, plastic victims that deserved to die, I might add. Netbooks are practically dead already and they are already five feet under ground, with only twelve more inches to go.
In my opinion leading in with the suggestion that one product will kill another stifles any reasonably comparison. Tech blogs like to use the term because they know people will click on it. Even if they click to leave comments in disagreements, they still clicked through to the article.
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No, they were originally designed to get Microsoft to offer XP licenses for longer to OEMs. Even the original netbooks came with references to Windows XP in their manuals when only Linux versions ever existed.
Are you saying they were just there for leverage? That doesn't seem likely.
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Originally Posted by Raleigh Brecht
IDGAF about IHS, stupid assed dumbfucks. This is business either stay out of it or talk to the government but don't ruin our generation.
Why stop there? Why not open with "IDGAFAIHS, SADs" instead and save us all the grief of having to read that stupidity long form?
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"...whereas the iPad is for those that really just wanted something cheap to get on the internet with…"
Can't agree with you about this part. From my own experience, that isn't at all what drove my decision to buy an iPad. Second, iPads are still more expensive than Netbooks were, so if price was the primary driver you wouldn't be looking at an iPad at all.
No one uses abacus either..!
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IHS sees netbooks dead by 2015, credits Apple's iPad
Fixed the headline for you.
I loved the form factor of my 9" HP Mini. The design and ergonomics were great, as was the feature-price ratio. At the time, I very sincerely wished that Apple would make a nearly identical machine that ran OS X, because the one thing I didn't like about it was that it ran Windows.
I've since moved on to a Macbook Pro and an iPad Mini, but to this day I still would much rather have a Mac version of that HP Mini.
Microsoft's limitations, if I recall correctly, were attached to Windows 7 Starter Edition - if you put Win 7 Pro on netbook, MS doesn't care about your screen or RAM size. Thus there were netbooks with HDDs over 250GB and RAM over 1 GB... but with higher Windows 7 SKUs.
Netbook was unloved child by most involved, a Cinderella in a way. Intel was not happy with people buying it's cheapest PC tech (and reducing sales of higher end, higher profit products) while MS didn't want to make Win 7 Starter as useful as more expensive SKUs.
It ended up with platform that pretty much stagnated for a few years, giving no reason for customer to upgrade (unless their unit died). The whole approach gave cheapest IT money can buy - currently Acer Aspire One costs NZ$461 while 16GB iPad Mini costs NZ$475 - but it turned out there is a limit how cheap average customer wants his computing, and it seems netbooks went below that, amazing as it may sound.
MBA is not netbook in terms of hardware, but is in terms of form factor. I wouldn't call them netbooks, but I would call them result of netbooks' evolution. Same as Ultrabooks from likes of Asus, Acer and others.
Sure, sales of netbooks to middle/upper-middle class westerners is going to drop due to tablets, but the platform isn't going to "die" for a long time.
A sub-$300 computer for internet/emailing and working from home is still preferable to a great many people compared to extensive use of a virtual keyboard on a tablet. Most of Asia will be choose netbooks over tablets for much of the foreseeable future, for example.
I spend a lot of time in Nepal, India and China with work, and the only places you see tablets in use are in really high end shopping malls (where the children of the rich drink coffee and watch YouTube). Otherwise, cheap netbooks are used by pretty much all my colleagues and can be seen everywhere you go. Sending emails/writing reports for 8 hours a day is still a lot easier on a keyboard for most, and in these countries an iPad would cost more than double what a new netbook would.
Until Intel kill Atom processor and AMD kill low end CPU line, netbook will produced in some form.
iPad price range never met the netbook price line. iPad lowest price is $499.
$500 in window laptop world, you can get decent entry level laptop with full blown windows 7 or 8.
Market is different. Netbook will not die soon. Specially Intel will release Out of Order(OOO) Atom CPU soon.
This new Atom CPU may be game changer in netbook & tablet market.
The netbook can't be dead! Microsoft still sells the Surface RT.
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The whole netbook thing was executed poorly. They were originally designed to run some flavor of Linux rather than Windows.
No, they were originally designed to get Microsoft to offer XP licenses for longer to OEMs. Even the original netbooks came with references to Windows XP in their manuals when only Linux versions ever existed.
Netbooks still exist?
Yep, and I just bought one. My life is too comfortable and efficient so I decided to hate the world a little¡
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Certain people who possess an unbelievable ignorance and who have been making complete fools of themselves, have been continuously blabbering about 'iPad Killers' for a very long time now, but if these people had any clue at all, they'd realize that the only killer in the room is the iPad itself.
How many things has the iPad killed already? The iPad is a serial killer, a mass murderer of other devices, and most likely one of the most successful mass murderers in history, when it comes to the category of tech devices. There is already a long, bloody trail of pathetic victims that the iPad has already laid waste to, mostly cheap, plastic victims that deserved to die, I might add. Netbooks are practically dead already and they are already five feet under ground, with only twelve more inches to go.
In my opinion leading in with the suggestion that one product will kill another stifles any reasonably comparison. Tech blogs like to use the term because they know people will click on it. Even if they click to leave comments in disagreements, they still clicked through to the article.
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Originally Posted by Applelunatic
No, they were originally designed to get Microsoft to offer XP licenses for longer to OEMs. Even the original netbooks came with references to Windows XP in their manuals when only Linux versions ever existed.
Are you saying they were just there for leverage? That doesn't seem likely.