“For months we’ve been hearing that tablet PCs – led by Apple’s iPad – are hurting netbook sales in a big way,” Jeff Bertolucci reports for PC World. “But are they really?”
“For now, touchscreen tablets appear to be luring consumers away from netbooks but analysts believe in the long term, netbooks will hold their own in an increasingly fragmented mobile device market, particularly as computer makers address user complaints by enhancing netbooks with faster processors and new capabilities,” Bertolucci reports.
“Netbook shipments in the US fell 34 percent from the third quarter of 2009 to the same period in 2010, according to research firm Gartner. The likely culprit? A certain tablet from Apple comes to mind,” Bertolucci reports. “”
Full article here.
Netbooks are a punch line in search of a joke.
ZuneTang is a lemming!
Welcome back ZT Dude.
@simon
Welcome, you must be new here.
Guess we haven’t beaten the shit out of this headline enough.
Analysts are trying so hard not to use iPad as the name of the tablet category like iPod has become the name of the MP3 player category. I think they’ll fail. One day soon, they’ll all be known as iPads.
You, sir, are an unmitigated ass. The banner to which you refer aboard the USS Lincoln is raised at the end of every successful tour our brave sailors make in the Pacific and elsewhere around the world. Bush did not raise the banner, sir. Our fighting men and women did, and it would have been there with or without the President’s appearance there and then.
You should be ashamed. I, for one, pity you and your ignorance.
Zune Tang, go back into your toilet hole where you naturally belongs.
“The unlikely few people who buy I-Pads would have to learn a whole new operating system …” Zune Tang
Really? I don’t have to teach my kid how to operate the i-Pad and he got it right the first time. Even my two cats knows how to point and touch at the right places on the i-Pad and the iPad responds. i-Pad is not like a Windows tablet. Windows tablets are too complicated that even a rocket scientist could not figure how to use them.
11.6 MBA is the only netbook for me. But as I am an old guy I think the 13 inch is probably more practical actually.
My first impulse is to say that the 11.6 MBA is the only netbook for me But as I am an old guy I think the 13 inch is probably more practical actually. Not giving into impulse is probably why I AM an old guy.
@ vsp
You, like simon, must be new here..
Welcome!
ZT is one of our local aces of satire.
You’ll grow to love him too.
Why welcome people with zero sense of humor, satire or basic reading comprehension skills??
Delighted to have you back, Zune Tang. You always tell the “rest of the story.”
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@ “@twilightmoon”
You, as you so apply reflected in your comments, are in the wrong forum. Blind lead by the blind is on another website. I think it is : ibeliveallthebullshitthatthegovernmenttellsme.com but you may want to google it.
You may want to read some of the WikiLeaks documents. They did, after all, come from people who do see the truth…
As for the netbook topic. I have looked at them over and over again and I can’t imagine working on a thing like that at all. I have a MBP 13 (newest virgin) and it is perfect. Does the job.
I even bought a messenger bag that holds both my iPad and my MBA… fully equipped for the MobileMe…
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Cheers…
MB Air sell like hotcakes. Muff said.
I like how Zune Tang creatively parses the language in reporting “…Many netbooks run some variant of the venerable and widely regarded Microsoft Windows…”
Of course, the phrase “widely regarded” means nothing. In life, many things may be “highly regarded” but I’ve never heard the term “widely regarded” used as an accolade. And I do agree: Microsoft Windows is “widely regarded” as a POS software, even as Mac OS is “highly regarded” software.
I count three ZT snags in this one thread. Amazing that it never get’s old…
Pol Pot was “widely regarded.”
Come on! Many people absolutely don’t bother about tablets and are even, and yet, very far from considering to by any Apple products… For them the netbook is “the best of what exists”. And it will remain, until their M$ turned heads come upon a windose compatible “wonder tablet”…
Congratulations Zune Tang! (whatever the heck a Zune is) you are official troll of this convo!!! Apple laptops actually cost less than evenly matched pc’s when you look at overall costs. Cuz I dont need any Anti-virus software that needs monthly payments. If you’re going to say something, research it first.
@TwilightMoon.
Get YOUR facts straight. Wikipedia is an easy place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Mission_Accomplished_Speech
@Jax44: Well said! =)
@JD…
“We need to make the iPad independent of a Mac/PC.”
*We* won’t be making the iPad do anything.
Most of us in this forum are consumers / users of wonderful Apple products. So, unless you’re a programmer / hacker, you won’t be making the iPad do anything either, except using progs from the iTunes / Apple / iPad store.
Secondly, your “…independent of a Mac / PC.”, comment: really?? You actually had the nerve to say this in a Mac fan forum??
The iPad *runs* a version of Mac OS X. There is absolutely no way to ‘seperate’ the iPad from a Mac / PC.
The heart and soul of every Mac sold is its OS. Period.
The iPad & iPhone are no different. As someone has said before me, ‘It’s the software, stupid.’
The thing that Microsoft doesn’t understand (and the reason for their downfall) is that Apple is a software platform company that wraps their OS in fantastic hardware. Most people get distracted by Jon Ives designed hardware and overlook the OS. They think “It’s marketing.” ‘Marketing’ is what is used by fools to convince other fools that a product is desirable, no matter how worthless it may be (a la: Windows Vista).
Apple makes a ‘total package’. Most other (if not all) CE companies do not.
This is why all the iPhone wannabe’s are getting obliterated in ‘the market’: weak OS. All of the iPhone wannabes are trying to use some1 else’s software (MS / Google) for their OS and are failing miserably. End of story.
There is no way to seperate the iPad from the Mac / PC because the iPad *is* a Mac / PC.
If you don’t understand this, then good luck understanding anything else.
@January 24, 1984,
I hope that the netbook is killed off or will be soon enough. My boss wants netbooks in in every school in our district, saying glowing things about them, that they are this and that and on and on. The school district gave him an iPad and he hates it.
I pointed out to him: The netbooks are flimsy, low quality; the iPad is top notch hardware.
The iPad runs iOS 4x and the netbooks run Windows. Enough said about that.
Yurns out the netbooks aren’t working too good, like those crummy $400 Lenovo laptops the teachers use.
twilightmoon:
The past tense of “lead” is “led,” not “lead,” as in car batteries and other Chinese products, such as baby formula.