A Chromebook is now hitting $249 running ARM and I believe you might be able to pick one up for $199 soon if not now. Samsung also had a mobile Celeron dual core floating around for some time. A Sandy Bridge based Celeron is nothing to look down at.
Very much so, for a basic user they can be an awesome deal. And those Sandy Bridge celerons have lots of muscle for how little power they consume.
god its 2013 and were still talking about celeron processors
Whats wrong with them?
No, I'm talking about the 6" ones that are supposed to come out this year. The Note II is fine at the size it is now, but it shouldn't get any bigger than that. Not for a cellphone anyway.
Uh, these were sub 300 dollar machines ( a good one was little more ). Limitations are the name of the game at razor think profit margins.
And under Linux, they actually did very well.
The atom was an ok processor if you just wanted a netbook for a note taking machine
Intel couldn't give two **its about the atom processor. They could easily be blamed for the death of the netbook as well as other scenarios.
I do most of my work on iWork for iPad, and it does more than enough of what I need. MS Office has macros, but I would rather use something like Bento or FileMaker Pro than a MS Office with macros and possibly a virus too.
Even on my MAC, I have both iWork and MS Office. I use Excel only for a special spreadsheet with macros that I must use for accounting purposes, which I'm planning to replace soon with an alternative that would run on both my MAC and iPad (Possibly FileMaker). For everything else I use Numbers and Pages.
When sharing documents, I send PDF files, not the original Pages or Numbers file.
Well nothing really I just thought that intel had abandoned them around 2008
Oh, I see. I guess they were just super cheap to make and...
Oh...hmmm.
Well now that's funny. That sure looks like they WEREN'T super cheap but were just being sold at an un-sustainable price to try and undercut regular PC laptops which actually weren't that much more expensive.
So what we had were a bunch of tiny, crappy laptops that cost almost the same as regular-sized laptops.
The only difference was that they had a bad business plan attached to them. Great distinction.
I think Chrome OS might just save the Netbook.
Seriously every notebook is dead except for these: 13 MBA, 15 MBP retina and the 12-15" pc laptops in the $300-$700 range.
Netbooks have just evolved and I think with CES rolling around we are going to see more x86 based low priced 11.6" sized tablet/notebook computers around. AMD, Intel, and nVidia are all pushing to get quad cores into the 5-15W space. The raw performance per core might not be there but slap in 16-64 GB of flash storage and you will have load balancing galore.The " Netbook " just evolved into slightly larger cheap laptops. Its possible to pick up a totally usable brand new laptop for 220 dollars these days.
Netbooks have just evolved and I think with CES rolling around we are going to see more x86 based low priced 11.6" sized tablet/notebook computers around. AMD, Intel, and nVidia are all pushing to get quad cores into the 5-15W space. The raw performance per core might not be there but slap in 16-64 GB of flash storage and you will have load balancing galore.
Flawed logic. Do you know how much these netbooks cost to make? Just because they weren't profitable doesn't mean they were expensive. Isn't it possible that it cost $250 to make and was being sold for $250? But when you factor in the sales channel/etc they were being sold at a loss. That's very different that not being "super cheap" to make.
So yes - there's a difference between a netbook and a macbook air. And it's very probable that there is/was a large margin in cost differential to make them.
The $199 tablet is now viable and Google/ASUS along with Acer, who did not appear to plan on doing so until recently, are targeting $99-129. Intel and AMD are both rolling out their next generation ultra low power x86 chips in 2013. AMD might even beat Intel to the punch with Atom in 22nm not showing up until Q3 2013. That means sub-$400 x86 hardware in a tablet form factor is more than likely and now more powerful. Flash prices are only sweetening the pot along with cloud storage subscriptions.Indeed, I still think we'll see Netbook Form factors around, as well as the convertibles and straight up tablets, you just won't see tiny laptops at Wal Mart for 200 bucks anymore, you'll see tiny laptops for the 400-500 range, which will be the " low end " ultrabooks.
Indeed, I think most of the new stuff will be Intel based, their next generation of chips is looking very promising.
Netbooks suck,I always hated them.
Didn't take jobs to know they would eventually die off, they were terrible.
I'm not sure why you keep dragging specific mac models into this, we're talking about netbooks and laptops as a category, so let's compare oranges to oranges, as it were.
An Acer Netbook: $330
An Acer Laptop: $480
So my argument is: The ONLY advantage the netbook has is that you save $150. If Acer was saving $150 to make it, then great, that's a business model. But based on what I'm hearing, they weren't saving that much. A lot of that $150 was them just eating a loss.
So as a business, what's the freak'n point? This is why netbooks failed and it has nothing to do with Macbook Airs.
Netbooks suck,I always hated them.
Didn't take jobs to know they would eventually die off, they were terrible.
I have mixed feelings on the price point. You might drop the keyboard and the mechanical hard drive but then you get a tablet right? But it is x86 based and priced like a netbook. Acer comes close with their W510 but I do not have much clout when that bugger is $549.They aren't dying off, the form factor will keep going. The name and price point won't
I have mixed feelings on the price point. You might drop the keyboard and the mechanical hard drive but then you get a tablet right? But it is x86 based and priced like a netbook. Acer comes close with their W510 but I do not have much clout when that bugger is $549.