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Bob Villa typed on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:48:59 -0700 (PDT):
>> 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)