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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:12" = normal machine by Kozz · · Score: 5, Funny

    I find that the most important dimension when it comes to whether or not a computer is comfortable or is awkward and annoying when I'm carrying it loose is thickness, not length or width.

    Oh-ho! A computer, you say? Is that what the kids are calling it these days? I can read between the lines, mister.

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  2. Re:It doesn't matter to the average consumer. by mikiN · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yahoo need to pull their asses out of the Stone Age and join the 21st century and learn to build websites. Two years probation or risk being put in a padded room with the rest of them "mistake HTML for a screen publishing language" reject DTPers with only the W3C compendium on the history and purpose of HTML as a medium-independent markup language for company. Periodical flogging with a 300px x 200px flyswat should be part of daily routine.

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  3. Re:Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And you know this how?