Hey there. I haven’t written anything here for quite a while now. I’ve been quite busy with my other projects unfortunately, but i decided to share now a couple of my thoughts regarding netbooks.
First of all, netbooks emerged on the market 1-2 years ago as a portable laptop with pretty low specs but un unbeatable price. For 300$ at the time, you could get this mini laptop with a screen, keyboard, storage and Wi-fi. Plus, compact size and reduced weight. A perfect recipe for portability.
In reality, those early netbooks were quite difficult to use. But they evolved. Nowadays there are lots of producers in this segment that saw an outstanding growth last year. Asus, Dell, MSI, Toshiba, Acer, all of them are here. Sony and even Apple might join them pretty soon.
Nowadays netbooks are small and pretty light (usually 10″ screens and around 2.5 lbs), come with decent configuration that could easily run Win XP and even the new Windows 7, have great battery life (3-5 hours) and are quite easy to use even for a longer period of time. They’re not as cheap as they were in their early days, but with an average price of $400-500, they’re still a great deal.
So, no wonder netbooks were so well received. I’m really curios what’s going to happen next. You can find on this blog more info on netbooks, including news, reviews and views on how will this netbook segment evolve. What do you think? Will it get even bigger or what?
