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Is Intel Killing 12-Inch Displays On Netbooks?

Posted by timothy on from the 12"-seems-a-bit-easier-on-the-eyes dept.

HangingChad writes "Dell has retired their 12-inch Intel Atom-powered netbooks, they said today. The official reason — 'It really boils down to this: for a lot of customers, 10-inch displays are the sweet spot for netbooksLarger notebooks require a little more horsepower to be really useful.' Or is the real reason that 12-inch displays on netbooks cut into Intel's more profitable dual-core market and Dell's profit margins on higher-end machines?"

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  1. Re:It doesn't matter to the average consumer. by node+3 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "... all of Apple's MacBook Pros ... get 7 or 8 hours (verified as accurate by various third party reviews, so not the standard industry "under imaginary conditions" you see with most notebooks). Most netbooks would be hard-pressed to get half that."

    Wow, that is massively not true. Under real use the new MBP barely get half that as well. My 17 gets 5.5 hours when doing essentially nothing.

    Do you have one of the new unibody MacBook Pros? If not, you're comparing the wrong notebook. If you do have one of the new ones, there's something wrong with your battery, or you're lying about how you're using it.

    http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3580&p=4