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War Brewing on the Inexpensive Laptop Front

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the cheaper-just-means-more-toys-faster dept.

The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting look at the war brewing on the inexpensive laptop front. With everything from the Eee PC to the OLPC, the trend in slimming and trimming seems to be continuing. "The market segment is so new it doesn't have a name yet or even an agreed-upon set of specifications. Intel, the chipmaker, calls the category "netbooks," recognizing that much of what people do on their laptops involves going on the Net. The new machines are also being called ultra-low-cost PCs, mininotebooks, or even mobile Internet gadgets. In appearance, they have the familiar clamshell design, but they're smaller, with seven- to 10-inch screens. They offer full keyboards (albeit with smaller keys) and weigh less than three pounds. Perhaps most important, the majority cost less than $500 - some as little as $299. Intel says it expects more than 50 million of these netbooks to be sold by 2011. It's introduced a tiny, low-power processor to run them called Atom, which puts 47 million transistors on a chip about the size of a penny."

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  1. Re:Only one loser. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You Fail IT.

  2. Will it be "Colonel Panic?" by spun · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or will it be "General Protection Fault?" Find out Sunday-Sunday-SUNDAY! in the battle royal between these two seasoned warriors. We'll sell you the whole seat but you'll only need the EDGE!

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    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  3. OT: Sockpuppet by willyhill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone posting on this thread should be aware that "inTheLoo" is a sockpuppet account of twitter, one of eight accounts (so far) created by him to game the moderation system.

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    The twitter monologues. Click on my homepage and be amazed.
  4. twitter just rules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I love, I mean absolutely love, how you play the game. You basically troll with one account, some stupid one-liner obvious throwaway comment, wait for people to take the bait, and then descend on the thread with your other accounts with the usual "M$ Windoze suxxorz M$ is dying free software is perfect and flawless and you work for M$ if you disagree" spiel. Cha-ching, karma city.

    You definitely deserve credit for that. It's just bloody impressive that the moderators keep falling for it again and again.

    Kinda makes me lose hope that Slashdot will ever be a place where intelligent and reasonable discussion will ever take place again. And it's all just so you can feel smug about yourself. Well played.

  5. Re:-1 Loser. by somersault · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The weird thing is that most people on /. would probably agree with his anti-MS sentiment if he didn't act like such an ass about it.. :p

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    which is totally what she said
  6. Re:Palm or PocketPC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fuck your keyboard I used to be a qwerty man, but as the old saying goes: once you've had dvorak you never go back.
  7. Re:Only one loser. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it's just *mind-boggling* how you keep showing up on these threads. bizarre.