Does 2012 Mark the End of the Netbook?

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 31, 2012 @08:05AM from the so-long-farewell-auf-weidersehen-goodbye dept.

Voline writes "Digitimes reports that Asus and Acer will not be producing netbooks in 2013, signaling the end of a product category that Asus began five years ago with its Eee PC. The Guardian looks at the rise and fall of the netbook and posits some reasons for its end. Reasons include: manufacturers shifting from Linux to Windows, causing an increase in price that brought netbooks into competition with full-on laptops that offered better specs for not much more money; the global recession beginning in 2008; and the introduction of the iPad and Android tablets."

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Re:Nah by mystikkman · 2012-12-31 08:15 · Score: -1, Troll

Chromebooks? Are you serious? They sold about as (or as bad!) as the Kin.
http://www.chromebookblog.com/2011/11/early-chromebook-sales-soft-reports-digitimes/

Acer had reportedly only sold 5,000 units and Samsung was said to have had even lower sales than Acer, according to sources from the PC industry.”
That's why Google doesn't release the numbers sold even now, just like for Google TV which had similarly pathetic sales.
Re:No Vision by MrHanky · 2012-12-31 09:10 · Score: 0, Troll

Oh wow. Another Apple shill modded up for no reason. I thought Slashdot was supposed to have an anti-Apple bias.