That’s the question that Rob Enderle is asking in his excellent analysis of the netbook. Rob tries first to define just what a netbook is, something that all of us who deal with them try to do. He finds the current operating system choices on netbooks to not work very well, from Linux to Vista Basic and I tend to agree with him. But what may be the big driver for netbooks going forward are the cloud services which are proliferating at a rapid pace. Remote computing is the perfect task for the netbook and Rob agrees with that. He sees the netbook as a more capable thin client in this role and he may well be correct with that view. One thing is clear to me and Rob agrees, a change is in the wind in the notebook field and it’s led directly by the netbook.
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