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~$350 for a 1kg computer that's small enough to carry everywhere without much worry. I can live with that. That price even includes the extra RAM and a larger, faster SSD.

No, I won't bring it on really long trips where I may need more power, but that's a rare case. I think of the netbooks as the equivalent of a small lightweight "commuter car." Good for day-to-day lightweight work. I know I rarely need a laptop for more than web access and email.

My only complaint is the small keyboard, and I do miss the trackpoint on my full-size laptop.

Sick Sick of all these prats bashing netbooks. Sure, the speed ain't lightning but it is around the same as the typical cheep ass 3 year old PC's you tend to get lumbered with in offices. I have no problems with surfing / emailing / wp etc and as that is what I use my PC for 90% of the time it suits me fine. Probably what 90% of the rest of population use PC's for too. My netbook is small, light, cheap, good battery, doesn't burn a hole in my lap! If I want speed or more screen real estate I would use my desktop but that hardly gets a look in anymore.

I just laugh when I see other people lugging about more conventional laptops the size of a large pizza, but twice as heavy, with huge brick PSU's, and 1 hour battery life, just to do a bit of surfing or facebook.

Sure, you can get thin Core 2's with 6 cell batteries and the like but they ain't cheep and overkill for most people.

'is about Intel and their well established tactic of doing paper launches or putting out cherry picked parts'

yer what? intel well known for it? the whole bleedin industry is built on paper launches or cherry picking at one time or another, AMD/ATI/Nv all play the same game, at differing times, as the first post noted

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Have there been any real studies on people's satisfaction with netbooks? I'd love to see people wake up and stop settling for these low powered internet devices, but most of the coverage I see seems to label the netbook as a success. I always hear and read statements claiming people don't need/want fast, powerful computers anymore and for a while I was starting to believe it.

Are a significant number of people dissatisfied with the lite experience? And what about iphones? Are people really using these devices to do anything more than an ipod that does GPS, voice and email that is purchased mainly for the image?

I love it, let's do the 1001 uses for an Atom netbook -I go first, and I know it's bleedingly obvious and not even funny but it *needs* to be said:

1. paperweight

2- 20 http://www.thinkjayant.com/best-use-of-old-laptops/

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I just wonder how many bought an Atom powered Netbook only to find that it is about as useful as tits on a Bull.

Bet there are heaps of sheepish owners sticking them on E-Bay.

Good news ... they make a halfway decent firewall for home use ... providing you put Linux on them.

Or an alarm clock.

Lets have an article on the 1001 uses of an Atom powered Netbook??

Can we get past 11 though ... ??
Please?

It's the "oh noos CD is bashing nVidia again" comments are getting annoyingly repetitive, especially when they are attached to an article that is about Intel and their well established tactic of doing paper launches or putting out cherry picked parts whenever the competition brings something interesting to the table.

Atom so owns the nettop/netbook segment I'm surprised they bothered this time around.

When I started reading this article and saw Charlie's name, I immediately knew that he was going to give a little bashing on nvidia. LOL

The practise of making the segmentation using an existing productline as a limiter is simply bogus. The fact that a bogus marketing practise is established tells much more about the (non)functioning of the markets and insufficient flexibility than a healthy greed.

Your hate for established business practices is annoyingly repetitive. I just wish you could see that everyone is aware of all this tom-foolery you get worked up about. However, most people choose to focus more on the products being produced than what the producer has to say about them. Relax, take your prozac, and remember that whether you're red green or blue you're going to try to make money.