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.
That 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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