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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. intel varies the charge based on destination by bogotronix · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think Atom purchasers have to declare the destination of the chip and intel charges more if the destination is a 12" display. The idea being every 12" sold is a desktop CPU sale lost. AMD, NVIDIA, VIA don't have the necessary market share to impose this kind of restriction on the manufacturers using their chips. Dell is probably surrendering now rather than continue with a platform that's had its profit margins hobbled from the start.

  2. Re:12" = normal machine by jones_supa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Exactly. And, there is already the term subnotebook for laptops of that size.

  3. Re:Yes by RedK · · Score: 4, Informative

    The case is Microsoft holds 90% of the entire PC market. Apple holds 10%. Hence why Microsoft is a Monopoly, and Apple isn't on the OS side. Apple also competes in the hardware business with Dell, HP and other OEMs. They don't have even near a controlling interest.

    As for your other comment, the MacOS market, MacOS isn't a market, it's a product. PCs are the market and Apple doesn't even come close to having a monopoly on it. You'd have to be retarded to think otherwise.

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  4. Re:Alternate Sources by c_forq · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry, I assumed Slashdot was using the same sources at the TechCrunch article I read earlier. You can read it at their site.

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  5. Re:It doesn't matter to the average consumer. by dfghjk · · Score: 4, Informative

    "... 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.