🚀 go-pugleaf

On Jun 15, 11:07 am, "BillW50" <Bill...@aol.kom> wrote:
> Innews:502593f1-e73b-4418-8b6b-9a21fea876ad@j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com,
> Bob Villa typed on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:48:59 -0700 (PDT):
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>
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> >> By the way, will netbooks ever be less expensive?
>
> > I can buy a laptop for that price, and have way more
> > stuff on it like a DVD burner and more storage
> > space - just 'cos a netbook is smaller...
>
> > And now - back to Shakespeare.
>
> > Melanie
>
> > Thanks for the kind words (in English)!
> > I agree about netbooks...if they were $150 I might think about it. For
> > $300 you can get a Toshiba with Windows 7 and 3gigs of ram (not the
> > everyday price, mind you!)
> > Cheers,
> > bob
>
> > PS, the news group I was replying from is "comp.sys.laptops", and of
> > course, this has been multiple posted originally.
>
> Oh I love the little guys! So much, I bought five of them. They are so
> light and quiet and runs for many hours on battery. I even connected one
> up to an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. And most of the time,
> you forget the brains is really just a tiny netbook only using 10 watts
> of power. And carrying them around all day is no big deal. And as a
> test, I only used one single netbook for two months straight. And I
> didn't miss a bigger machine one bit. And these things are really rugged
> too. And the best part is they are so Star Trek like. There isn't much
> of a down side to them at all.
>
> I remember when Asus first came out with their first netbook in 2007.
> Many experts were saying there was no market for such a machine. And
> boy, were they ever wrong! They started selling like hotcakes. Then
> other manufactures started to come out with their own netbooks.
>
> But then again, I remember back when experts were saying that laptops
> would never make it either. Now look at them, outselling desktop
> machines. And it looks like netbooks might be outselling laptops by as
> early as by next year. That would be a very impressive feat IMHO.
>
> So what will topple netbook sales? How about people going nuts over the
> next innovation of netglasses. Where the glasses are the screen and the
> mouse follows your eye movements. And you blink your left eye for a left
> mouse click, right for the right one. Heck I would buy one of those.
> Maybe five of them. ;-)
>
> --
> Bill
> Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
> Windows XP SP2 (quit Windows updates back in May 2009)

We never said we DIDN'T want one!
You can step down from the soapbox now.