What are the advantages of an Android netbook?

Netbooks have to be cheap.  That can’t be stated emphatically enough.  There are many low-cost notebooks these days and for netbooks to get away with using slightly under-powered components such as the Atom processor, they must be very cheap.

android-netbookThat low cost requirement has many looking at foregoing Linux or Windows XP and putting Android on netbooks.  There’s a lot that can be said about doing this but it leads to the need for a serious discussion as to what might be gained by doing so.  There’s certainly a big interest in an Android netbook.

Certainly Android is pretty powerful and could handle the netbook format.  It’s almost like a miniature version of Windows with all of those icons and the ability to handle keyboards.  It’s open source so it could easily be a cheap alternative for netbooks to help produce them cheaply enough to be competitive.

Perhaps an Android netbook could be instant on and have great battery life.  That would be a powerful argument for using Android.  There must be a lot of good reasons to make an Android netbook a viable product so let’s kick off a discussion.  What do you think?  Would you consider buying an Android netbook?  What would it need to get you to do so?  We’re looking to have a meaningful exchange of ideas.  OEMs visit here frequently so your idea may get them going, stranger things have happened.

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