Comments on: What's Next for the Netbook Market? http://gigaom.com/2009/09/10/whats-next-for-the-netbook-market/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:23:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: amy http://gigaom.com/2009/09/10/whats-next-for-the-netbook-market/#comment-223711 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:09:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=68824#comment-223711 The proliferation of netbooks are going to complicate wireless device management for big companies. As more employees use them in addition to/in replace of smart devices, it’s a financial headache x 2.

]]> By: tvlampsn http://gigaom.com/2009/09/10/whats-next-for-the-netbook-market/#comment-223710 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:32:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=68824#comment-223710 Netbooks aren’t any different from other electronics. The biggest change is going to be a decrease in size with an increase in price. Netbook makers have hated the competition with the OLPC and wanted to get closer to the Macbook Air. It’s better for their image and better for their bottom line.

People don’t need RJ45 connections, and VGA connectors. Removing these two alone would help slim these big boys down. Also it seems like there’s going to be a move to improve screen resolution and to have more use of LED backlighting.

Windows 7 is going to be the biggest gamechanger. I’m going to install it on my 1001HE somehow and hope that it will breathe new life into it.

Microsoft may not let netbooks have more than 1GB of RAM or 160GB of Hard drive space, but it seems like a no brainer for netbooks to come with 2GB or RAM and 250GB hard drives. The stuff is cheap enough.

]]> By: Jeremy Leipzig http://gigaom.com/2009/09/10/whats-next-for-the-netbook-market/#comment-223709 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:20:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=68824#comment-223709 I think there is a swelling demand for fast 10″ 2GB netbooks with dvi output and video that can easily drive 1920×1200 external monitors. Bascially people want a powerful mobile cpu, use the laptop monitor in a pinch, but treat as a full power desktop when not mobile.

]]> By: rajeev bajpai http://gigaom.com/2009/09/10/whats-next-for-the-netbook-market/#comment-223708 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:19:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=68824#comment-223708 Its an interesting observation by Patrick that netbook is liked by people who wanna do more than 3 minutes of web surfing. The other thing which coems to my mind is people want to use smartphones for voice centric applications and perhaps Netbooks for data centric applications owing to bigger display and bigger keyboard. Otherwise overtime it would be difficult to differentiate between smartphone – netbook and a notebook. Its essentially a form factor battle made interesting by the telecom carriers. The product will continue to evolve and more feverently adopted by consumers.

]]> By: Netbook News http://gigaom.com/2009/09/10/whats-next-for-the-netbook-market/#comment-223707 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:50:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=68824#comment-223707 There is big effect of global economic crisis on the growing of cheap notebook as you called netbooks.

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]]> By: Jennifer Martinez http://gigaom.com/2009/09/10/whats-next-for-the-netbook-market/#comment-223704 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:57:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=68824#comment-223704 Thanks, Curtis! It’s fixed now.

]]> By: Curtis http://gigaom.com/2009/09/10/whats-next-for-the-netbook-market/#comment-223703 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:32:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=68824#comment-223703 @Jennifer,

I think AT&T and Verizon charge $60 for data with capped usage.

Best,

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