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By: mech

mech — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:32:58 +0000

first of all, those netbook providers are giving customers what they want. that will land them another sale down the road as the customers tend to be loyal to those that treat them well. Apple knows that people would kill for an apple netbook but it’s giving all of them the finger. the company obviously only cares about the $.

I don’t get people using this stupid phrase “netbook niche”. are the numbers not speaking loudly enough for ya? netbooks are selling like hotcakes. everyone and their dog has one. How is that a niche?

rant aside, I could’ve bought a decent lappy like the guy in the 1st post for the price of a netbook (dell mini9), but being a student, of whom there are thousands, the netbook just makes sense, especially when you are running OSX on it.

get over urself apple-hardware fanboys.

cute story the other week: getting ready to give a talk, I plugged in my hackintosh and the projector just kicked in. the guy before me was leaving telling me how the projector doesn’t work well. packing away his massive MBP, he was baffled because the projector didn’t register on his monster but worked right away for me. he had to have a tech guy come and save the day.
netbook: +1
MBP: 0

By: Pat O.

Pat O. — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:46:46 +0000

I guess that I’d rather be Apple than Acer or Toshiba in this scenario. Market share be dammed. The numbers of units shipped doesn’t represent the same results in terms of profit margin netbooks vs. MacBooks. Apple is clearly way ahead in their mandate to earn value for their shareholders. Along the way they’ve made some great products too.

I think that they’re firing on all cylinders at this point.

By: Pat O.

Pat O. — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:36:24 +0000

I love my Macs, but I have a netbook here at the house too. My wife uses it for email and surfing. Why wait? The price isn’t that big a deal. All the options are getting better and we’ll buy something new when we want it. A few hundred dollars isn’t a major decision anymore.

By: Charles Jade

Charles Jade — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:09:34 +0000

Tom, although I am not an Apple shareholder, I agree. However, I think you would agree that what happened to Apple in 1995 was disastrous. Cheap PCs running a “good enough” Mac-like GUI utterly won out in the marketplace. When netbooks have as long a battery life as a MacBook at a third the price, and the Internet is the interface, that will be a problem for Apple. The iPhone is one way around that problem, but it’s not the alternative to the netbook. Maybe the tablet will be.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:17:57 +0000

you are so wrong. pull your head out of your butt

By: steve

steve — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:16:33 +0000

Netbooks niche is based on its balance of weight, size, battery life and performance. They rock! Who wants to haul around a 5 lb brick?

By: Tom B

Tom B — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:34:58 +0000

Netbooks = margin erosion

MacBooks = profit

–humble AAPL investor

By: Charles Jade

Charles Jade — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:27:49 +0000

Netbooks aren’t there yet, but they will be. Is it better to wait until the technology provides for the equivalent power of a MacBook in a two-pound package or release a MacBook mini with caveats now?

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:07:01 +0000

I also wanted to say it is hilarious about 5 minutes into class when all the large budget notebook fans turn on. With 20+ large notebooks in the room it sounds like the ventilation system turning on! =P

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:05:03 +0000

how about the battery life and portability of that laptop? I see a lot of students using netbooks these days because they have enough weight carrying books around all day and they need a laptop that can keep a charge for 6+ hours.

By: Joe Anonymous

Joe Anonymous — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:51:13 +0000

I don’t understand the whole netbook appeal.

Now, I realize that a very tiny number of people really need the smallest usable computer and, yes, a netbook makes sense for them. But most people buy them because they’re cheap.

But I recently bought my daughter a 15″ Toshiba laptop with Core 2 Duo processor (2.33 GHz), DVD burner, discrete video chip, 2 GB RAM, 300 GB hard disk, Windows Vista for $379 (regularly $399, but $20 off at Best Buy).

For a little less ($300), I could have bought an 8″ netbook with 1 GHz Atom processor, no optical drive. No thanks.