Comments on: A Response to TechCrunch: Netbooks May Not Be Perfect But They Are Good Enough

By: toe

toe — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:20:41 +0000

I f****ing love my s10. Honest to god, it’s replaced my desktop. Here’s how I use it: dock it at home and use it sort of like a desktop (simply a usb mouse and vga cable to a 21″ lcd, seamless) and unplug it and throw it in my bag when I go out. The lcd monitor is left over from my desktop, and I figured that I might as well use it.

By: rkms

rkms — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:07:26 +0000

So what do you recommend a home user buy ? A netbook or a notebook or a PC Desktop ? Considering he needs mobility but at same time would like to have a computer which is useful for browsing the net, editing a document in a wordprocessor and doing some image editing – say connecting and downloading the pictures from his camera and resizing them.

I for one will root for a netbook because of the following reasons :

Lower price range
Smaller size without sacrificing power and memory.
Choice of operating systems installed by default – WinXP or Linux
More competition – HP, ASUS, DELL – all have jumped on the netbook bandwagon – which is good for the consumer.
Variety of specs

By: Diplodoggy

Diplodoggy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:51:04 +0000

Netbooks are selling like hotcakes and also if you would consider its price in the market, It gives oppurtunity for people to suite thier computing needs specially us young professionals in middle class countries and allow us to do our side jobs anywhere since i do have VPN and WIFI connectivity.

===NO Keyboard NO Screen NO Horsepower issues===

Everything is SMOOTH with my 1.6Ghz Atom 2GB Memory and 160GB HDD NETBOOK
… just like riding with the WIND.
And also LESS BACK PAIN carrying it : ) if you would consider my dual core full size laptop who does the same function as my netbook.

Well Mr. Arrington guess what, I could also do MAC OSX on my Netbook without any flaws. ( just do the right Instructions) good luck to you if you want to have one. : P

By: h c edwards

h c edwards — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:45:10 +0000

I wonder if the S10 is right for me.
I really want a “digital photo album.” I want to keep my images on my PC and edit them there – I am currently using Microsoft digital image. When we travel, I want to be able to transfer selected albums to the S10 and show them as a slide show or as individual images.
Is the image quality of the S10 good enough for my purposes? I know that this is a subjective thing- what is good enough for one person may not be good enough for others.
Also, I like the option of plugging into a TV.
Just looking for a reality check.
Thanks,
HC

By: shiva

shiva — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:53:27 +0000

newer netbooks are good for most general applications.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:16:30 +0000

I absolutely with you Joanna aka miss netbook
I’m into the netbook story for quite a while know. I love my quick and superb Samsung NC10! It’s pretty good for internet,e-mail,word,excel and even runs some games and photoshop.

By: Sascha

Sascha — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:08:20 +0000

Sorry Michael but if you would have tested a ton of these, you would know that there are no netbooks with a Nano cpu on the market.
Seriously, when someone who is doing the weather forecast on any local news station is publishing something like this i would say.. alright, he is just the weatherman and has no idea about it.

but someone who claims to be a pro, reviewing tons of these systems and writing for such a big website, should know better and not getting an article online that is full of errors and biased content.

And believe me, you have no Nano device.

and now let’s wait for Patrick Moorhead, who is a pretty good spin doctor, too…
I guess that happens when you don’t have any platform for the demand of the market…

You and AMD missed it big time… but the difference to people without any background at all is, you guys are making it public…

By: Henry Adams

Henry Adams — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:59:21 +0000

Mr Arrington, you should consider beefing up the advertisement infrastructure on your website. Once a broader monetary capture scheme is in place, just continue writing highly questionable, inaccurate blog articles and get an even larger return on your viral-blog marketing. If this was your plan, a pat on the back for you. I will personally click all you links 10x. Maybe next time you should invest more energy and resources into your published word.

Thumbs up to laptop and the others for bringing the much needed light upon the misinformation.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:12:17 +0000

Arrington, your opinion is your opinion and, in my opinion, worthless.

By: michael arrington

michael arrington — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:54:10 +0000

I should have been clearer in my post for those people, like you, who really know the space. I’ve tested a ton of these, and I have definitely done my research.. They litter my office. A lot of them are older 7 inch models. I have a Nano device that I guess hasn’t hit the market yet, running vista. not so well. I’ve got one of the Dells. I’ve tested 10 inch, 8.9 inch and 7 inch machines on every OS they offer (XP, Vista, Linux). I’ve even scraped machines and put my own stripped down version of linux with a browser…

and that’s when things start humming. The screen still sucks, and the keyboard still sucks, but the machine works well. as in as well as a desktop, at browsing the internet.