As others have said this is just chasing the same market as everyone else. And really they are just cheaper laptops (lacking the vista tax = higher licence, memory, disk) and not netbooks at all.
Its weird that SSDs are dropping off all these lineups. Basically it means the masses have not adopted any of the uses that netbooks could be good for (silence, continuous standby, ebooks, etc) and are just buying them as cheap laptops. The one thing both M$ and Intel tried to prevent when they limited the specifications of the lower cost market! So its amusing to see them frustrated but sad to see so few real netbooks remaining.
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So cheap laptops not netbooks then....
As others have said this is just chasing the same market as everyone else. And really they are just cheaper laptops (lacking the vista tax = higher licence, memory, disk) and not netbooks at all.
Its weird that SSDs are dropping off all these lineups. Basically it means the masses have not adopted any of the uses that netbooks could be good for (silence, continuous standby, ebooks, etc) and are just buying them as cheap laptops. The one thing both M$ and Intel tried to prevent when they limited the specifications of the lower cost market! So its amusing to see them frustrated but sad to see so few real netbooks remaining.